Re: relativity: what if you can measure how far the light traveled?

On Feb 13, 8:25 pm, "Alen" <a...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
[...]

Spacetime diagrams work ok as a calculating device. But to
say that therefore that is also how reality actually works
assumes that there is only one possible explanation
for time dilation and foreshortening, which are the directly
testable phenomena. But there are actually two possible
explanations - one based on 4D spacetime, while the other
would be based on distorting properties of light itself,
with no 4D spacetime of Minkowski's kind, which would mean
that light is really more peculiar that we think it is.

<<A Lorentz transformation or any other coordinate
transformation will convert electric or magnetic
fields into mixtures of electric and magnetic fields,
but no transformation mixes them with the
gravitational field. >>
http://www.aip.org/pt/vol-58/iss-11/p31.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gauge_fixing
http://arxiv.org/abs/physics/0204034

Fair warning... Dirk and probably Russell too, will go to their
graves trying to sell what is little more than another version
of the "bellhop paradox".

You are making sound argument where they are
running in illogical circles.

<<The failure of the accepted views and
resolutions is traced to the fact that the special relativity
principle formulated originally for physics in empty
space is not valid in the matter-filled universe. >>
--C. S. Unnikrishnan
http://www.iisc.ernet.in/currsci/dec252005/2009.pdf


If you enjoy pointless sparring, don't let me spoil the
fun. However, concrete arguments can be found in
the rigourous derivations that Einsten omitted from
his theories:

Time-independent Maxwell equations
Time-dependent Maxwell's equations
Relativity and electromagnetism
http://farside.ph.utexas.edu/teaching/em/lectures/lectures.html
http://web.mit.edu/8.02t/www/802TEAL3D/visualizations/light/index.htm
http://www.ee.surrey.ac.uk/Personal/D.Jefferies/antennas.html

Maxwell's equations in classic electrodynamics
(classic field theory)_
a) Maxwell equations (no movement),
b) Maxwell equations (with moved bodies)
http://www.wolfram-stanek.de/maxwell_equations.htm#maxwell_classic_extended


Sue...




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