Re: So... Lerentz Contractions are *physical* not observered?


"Dono" <sa_ge@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:1183814550.451292.239750@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
On Jul 7, 3:25 am, "Martin Hogbin"
No so, LET can fully explain _every_ experiment that fall within its
realm of applicability.

I am not disputing this.
I am disputing the historical foundation of LET.

In what way?

The fundamental equations of SR are the Lorentz transformations.
They have this name because they were essentially the equations
proposed by Lorentz in 1904.

What happened is that the "latter day" generators of
aether theories replaced the "object contraction" (which they knew to
have been falsified by the experiments I cited)

No, Lorentz' original 1904 theory can explain all the experimental
results we have to date (obviously excluding gravitation).

with the projective
form of length contraction borrowed from SR, thus creating their own
forms of LET.

Which aether theory uses 'the projective form of length contraction'?

Sophisticated people like Ilja Schmeltzer, Selleri, etc
could not have possibly founded their theories on an approach ("object
contraction") that they KNEW it has been falsified experimentally 100
years ago.

I am not aware that Ilja claims to have founded his theory on any form
of length contraction, projective or otherwise.

I know nothing of Selleri but a brief Google search suggests that he
is a crackpot.


--
Martin Hogbin



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