Re: The true crackpots


"PD" <TheDraperFamily@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:1128626695.040370.318360@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>
> mluttgens@xxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> > I presume that you recognize that the Fermilab experiments couldn't
> > prove "length contraction". Indeed,
> >
> > "In a tevatron, those collisions occur of course head-on.
> > Or, according to SR, physical bodies set in motion only shorten in the
> > direction of their motion, meaning that a proton colliding head-on
> > with an anti-proton will not observe "length contraction" of the
> > anti-proton."
> >
> > Now you are referring to HERA papers. Please give me a *specific*
> > reference where such contraction has been demonstrated. I am pretty
> > well convinced that there are none, unless in your imagination, like
> > with Fermilab :-)
> >
> > Marcel Luttgens
>
> What I'm doing is comparing jet cross sections in two environments: one
> where the source is stationary in the lab (Tevatron) and one where the
> source is moving in the lab (HERA). I don't think you're getting that
> point.
>
> Let me see if I can find something that is a little more direct for
> your tastes. Since this will be a bit older in the literature, I'll
> have to search a little harder.
>
> At least you are willing to read in the library, which is commendable
> and more than what folks like TomGee or Seto are either willing or able
> to do.

But I'm almost confident that -eventually- you'll ask him to
jump from the Eiffel Tower to prove that he doesn't float.
Good luck ;-)

Dirk Vdm


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