Re: Tell me why Einstein's SR was wrong - Results


Tom Roberts wrote:
SCW wrote:
In this post of Thursday, Feb 23 2006, I asked the question "Tell me
why Einstein's SR was wrong"
The choice of answer was :
a) The problem lies in the first postulate (speed of light).
b) The problem lies in the second postulate (consistency of physics)
c) I agree with the postulates, but I think that the analysis
and conclusions are wrong.
d) Some other reason / don't know, it's just plain wrong
There were 5 dissenting replies
a) = 1
b) = 0
c) = 0
d) = 4
No-one picked (b) The problem lies in the second postulate (consistency
of physics), although interestingly there did seem to be some confusion
on what constituted consistency.

Apparently you never saw my response.

Indeed it does not appear in google under that thread.
Apparently one of my account's news server is not well
connected for posting. I'll look into that -- I have
occasionally noticed that the newsgroup seems partially
segmented (not all posts appear everywhere)....

I "picked" a, b, and c, along with a discussion of why -- mainly poor
phrasing on your part -- my main point is that your question is the
_wrong_ question: scientific theories are not "right or wrong", they are
valid or invalid (i.e. in agreement with experiments or not) in a
specific domain of phenomena.

And, of course, a poll like this has no standing at all. Scientific
theories stand or fall on their merits and agreement with experiment,
not on peoples' opinions. And the opinions of most people around here
are _particularly_ useless.


Tom Roberts tjroberts@xxxxxxxxxx


Sorry Tom, no I didn't see your post.





SCW

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