Re: "Relativity and Reasonableness Tests"

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On Jul 5, 9:50 am, "Jeckyl" <n...@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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On Jul 4, 9:06 pm, "Jeckyl" <n...@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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SR uses math to explain how our measurements are affected by
relative
motion, but it doesn't explain the underlying mechanics of why those
equations work.
The explanation of a 4-d Minkowski spacetime seems to cover SR very
nicely
And what does Minkowski give for a reason why C is a constant? Why
can one ray of light never overtake another? Why the addition of
velocities works the way it does rather than just normal addition?

Because that can't ahppen whne you have lorentz transforms

That doesn't answer the question. The LT applies rather that normal
addition for a reason. What is the reason.

In order to model the real world

seehttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Introduction_to_special_relativity
LTAT or LET as it is often called around here
provides a possible explaination.
Not a very good one.
Maybe not, but it works. For many that is far better than being told
"That's just the way it is. Science doesn't tell you why."
LTAT, LET doesn't tell you why either
LET says light is a wave in the aether.
SR doesn't even define light

It isn't about the nature of light .. it is independant of the nature of
light. One less comlpication for SR

other than to say it travels at C in all frames.

Yes

No explaination is given for how it manages to do that, it is just a
given.

We don't need to know how light propogates .. only that there is a maximum
finite speed at which information can be exchanged (including light)

LET explains
how light is measured to travel at C in all frames

SR does as well .. because c is the maximum speed. Minkowski spacetime
makes it that way

even though its
closing speed with objects moving in the aether frame is not C.

Same with SR and minkowski spacetime

The math of LET can be more
complicated than SR if you try to include the aether frame in your
calculations, but Lorentz showed how that step could be eliminated.
The math of LET can be simpified into the same math as SR.
Then just use SR and Minkowski .. no need for special ether frames
adding
to
the complication
That is basicly what you end up doing. But when in doubt about how to
apply formulas at least you have a model that allows you to reason out
the result.
SR and Minkowski are the model. You introduce further complexity by
having
a special frame.
What part of "The math ends up the same." do you not understand?

If its the same, use the simpler SR model. One doesn't need the
complication of stipulating light propagation, of having undetectable
absolute frames, or having an ether that is somehow inexplicably able to
contract space and dilate time etc etc .. all the extras that various ether
theories add in.


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