Re: What Does SR stand For?


"RLG" <Junk@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Regretfully you only continued your discussion with O'Barr, However I could
not help noticing some interesting claims by you:

But we know that space exists and even in classical physics, with its
three-dimensional Euclidean space, the existence of space was accepted
without knowing what it is per-se. Well, science knows that space and
time exist, it is a common observation, and experiments show how space and
time are distorted by matter, and those experiments agree with the
equations of Special and General Relativity. And your "LET theory"
doesn't say what ether is in any physical sense. Unlike space and time,
which obviously do exist, there is no evidence at all for any space
filling medium or ether.

That happens to be essentially just OTHER WORDS for what O'Barr was trying
to convince you of. :-)
Basically, he uses the word "ether" where you use the word "space". Thus you
are having a (useless) debate about words.
Einstein explained that as follows in 1920:

"Mach's idea finds its full development in the ether of the general theory
of relativity. [...] This space-time variability [...] has, I think, finally
disposed of the view that space is physically empty. [...] Recapitulating,
we may say that according to the general theory of relativity space is
endowed with physical qualities; in this sense, therefore, there exists an
ether."

(And please note. all "space" in this message, even in the sentences by you,
stands for 3D space)

Cheers,
Harald


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