Re: Why TWLS=OWLS=c in any ONE Frame.


"Henri Wilson" <HW@..> wrote in message
news:l6hqt1171glprslh5om30s1ndefdv34vs2@xxxxxxxxxx
> On Sun, 29 Jan 2006 11:29:44 GMT, "Dirk Van de moortel"
> <dirkvandemoortel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> >
> >"Henri Wilson" <HW@..> wrote in message
news:3v3ot1ple8nn8mdb1mg948lju9t3tjr340@xxxxxxxxxx
> >>
> >>
> >> A____________L______________B
> >>
> >> A and B are two observers equipped with light sources and clocks, at
each end
> >> of a long rigid rod of length L. Because the clocks are at mutually at
rest,
> >> the clock rates can be absolutely synched.
> >
> >[snip]
> >
> >> The clocks are now 'absolutely' synched.
> >
> >A sends a signal to B when his clock reads T1 and receives
> >an echo when his clocks reads T2. With the echo signal he
> >also receives B's clock reading TB from the echo event. He
> >defines the time of the echo event to be TA = 1/2(T1+T2).
> >He calculates the difference TA-TB and sends that number
> >to B, who then adds this number to his own current clock
> >reading. Clocks A and B are now synchronized in their
> >common inertial restframe.
> >
> >You haven't mentioned any other frame, so you have no
> >right to talk about 'absoluteness'.
>
>
> >
> >>
> >> Poor old Einy didn't know what he actually achieved!!!!
> >
> >I think you missed an essential part of something ;-)
>
> I don't think so.
> Rod lengths and clock rates do not physically change as a result of a
velocity
> change.
> However, even if your theory was NOT complete nonsense and the clocks DID
> somehow change, they would both change by the same amount in any second
frame.

Not so: I've already given a detailed calculation example which includes the
impossibility of such "absolute synching": http://tinyurl.com/bykde


> So the above clocks remain in 'absolute synch' in all frames.
>
> Note: the method makes no attempt to absolutely synch clocks in different
> frames. That may be the source of your confusion.
>
>
>
> >Dirk Vdm
> >
>
>
> HW.
> www.users.bigpond.com/hewn/index.htm
>
>


.

Relevant Pages

  • Re: Why TWLS=OWLS=c in any ONE Frame.
    ... >>> A and B are two observers equipped with light sources and clocks, ... > Rod lengths and clock rates do not physically change as a result of a velocity ... Since you haven't mentioned any other frame in anything ... you have no right to talk about 'absoluteness'. ...
    (sci.physics.relativity)
  • Re: Why TWLS=OWLS=c in any ONE Frame.
    ... > A and B are two observers equipped with light sources and clocks, ... also receives B's clock reading TB from the echo event. ... right to talk about 'absoluteness'. ...
    (sci.physics.relativity)
  • Re: IRT: A New Theory of Relativity
    ... >>in motion relative to himself to shrink, and measures clocks in motion ... you are saying that Einstein assumed the observer using the Lorentz ... same speed in all directions in his own frame. ... plugging numbers into the Lorentz transformation, ...
    (sci.physics)
  • Re: IRT: A New Theory of Relativity
    ... >>in motion relative to himself to shrink, and measures clocks in motion ... you are saying that Einstein assumed the observer using the Lorentz ... same speed in all directions in his own frame. ... plugging numbers into the Lorentz transformation, ...
    (sci.physics.relativity)
  • Re: The genius of the Absolute
    ... ray is growing using k's rulers and clocks, it is growing at the rate c. ... suppose we want to transform into a new coordinate system moving at ... depend on the rest frame of the aether) should strike both clocks at the ...
    (sci.physics)