Re: A little challenge for relativists.


"Bilge" <dubious@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> Harry:
> >"Bilge" <dubious@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
> >> That doesn't define the frame. To define a frame, and initialize the
> >> data, you must specify the positions of the other objects in that
> >> frame on a the line defined as t = 0 (Or some other definition which
is
> >> self consistent). The line t = 0, has no intrinsic meaning, so _you_
> >> have to specify what it means. I'm not going to do it for you. Before
> >> you take another stab at it, you might look up the commutation
relations
> >> for the poincare algebra.
> >
> >Bilge, no experimentalist needs to "look up the commutation relations
for
> >the poincare algebra" or things like that. Anyway, you now showed in
your
>
> Neither would a theorist - but you aren't an experimentalist or
> theorist or a physicist of any sort, so you do need to look it up.

Wrong, as well as besides the point. Flaming does not work to hide the smoke
screen that you set up because you failed to come up with a real measurement
example.

> >comment about Newton's theory:
> >Message-ID: <slrndp1g0d.r7g.dubious@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> >that your real issue is not with GRT/SRT, but already with classical
> >mechanics - which is much more basic.
>
> I have no problem with classical mechanics.

Sorry for the glitch: I meant Newtonian mechanics.

> >Then it's a waste of time to try to show you that Newton's absolute
space
> >concept is also compatible with SRT.
>
> Yes, it is a waste of time, since you're wrong on several counts.

Harald


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