SR is approximately valid, physics is not math.

From: "Sorcerer" <Headmaster@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 28 Nov 2006 12:23:11 GMT

"Tom Roberts" <tjroberts137@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:7hQah.16667$6t.3934@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
| fitz wrote:
| > When can we use special relativity?
|
| SR is strictly valid only in a flat Lorentzian manifold with the
| topology of R^4. This of course is a very poor model of the world we
| inhabit.
|
| But physics is not math, and we often use approximations. SR is
| approximately valid

In other words, SR is fucking useless.

.

References:
- When can we use special relativity?
  - From: fitz
- Re: When can we use special relativity?
  - From: Tom Roberts

Prev by Date: Re: Special Relativity is Dead (second proof)
Next by Date: Re: symmetric twins paradox
Previous by thread: Re: When can we use special relativity?
Next by thread: Re: When can we use special relativity?
Index(es):
- Date
- Thread