Re: The real paradoxes in SR.

On May 24, 6:38 pm, "Gerald L. O'Barr" <glob...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
The real paradoxes in SR.

SR is itself a paradox. In fact, SR is full of
paradoxes. These are real paradoxes, not just
imagined paradoxes.
SR requires the speed of light to be c relative
to every frame. Such a requirement is physically
impossible. If there are relative motions between
frames, then in general, the relative velocity to a
specific photon cannot physically be the same in all
these frames.
. . . But SR is completely impossible.

Gerald, I am going to make one last stab at this. Simple distinguish
between the 3-space and the and the time of the Minkowski manifold.
What you have then is a geometry equivalent to a coordinate system.
This coordinate system is equivalent in "every way" to an ether rest
frame. Yes clocks moving wrt to this system's 3-space, "really" tick
slower than the underlying time of the manifold and metersticks are
"really" shorter than one resting in the underlying 3-space.

Here is the problem Gerald. One can not find this rest frame. On the
one hand it can be conceived to be there "as a matter of principle",
but on the other hand, it "IS NOT" a practical concept. By practical
I mean, its not a concept which can be subjected to experience.
Invariant light speed on the other hand can be.

In any event, practictioners of SR simply do not bother with concepts
which, even if consistent in principal, are not subject to
experimental confirmation separably. Only those things they think are
confirmed by experience are allowed.

.

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