Re: This is confusing - can someone explain?

On May 5, 2:36 pm, "N:dlzc D:aol T:com \(dlzc\)" <d...@xxxxxxx> wrote:
Dear Alen:

"Alen" <a...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message

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On May 5, 10:29 am, "N:dlzc D:aol T:com \(dlzc\)"
<d...@xxxxxxx>
wrote:
Dear Alen:

"Alen" <a...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message

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You are insisting that I am using light when I am not,

If you cannot see it, I am sorry. What things will your
instruments record, besides elapsed time?

...

I don't really understand your problem.

I asked you one question. You managed to write another two or
three paragraphs without answering it. Your instrument
packages... what are they measuring besides time?

David A. Smith

They measure time, time dilation on the moving clock,
the distance the object has moved relative to the stationary
observer, acceleration, time dilation on the stationary
clock. I said the distance moved was vt, but this neglects
to include acceleration, so, to include acceleration, it
should be Sv(t)dt, with S standing for the integration
symbol. It will be vt only if the distance is measured
after the acceleration is complete. The instruments,
of course, are only to confirm what, logically, must be
true. Identical, translationally invariant experiments
cannot produce other than identical results.

Alen

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