Re: Dono not honest enough to admit his mistake?




"Artful" <artful@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:13sfnsbjucm5oe9@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Come on now .. admit that you were wrong. Its not hard. You completely
stuffed up what SR predicts happens wrt length contraction. Now be a good
boy and admit it .. and an apology for all your unprovoked name calling and
criticizing my correct position would really show that you are a person
worth of respect. Or will you be a remain a laughing stock forever?

In case you've forgotten:

"There is a large class of thought experiments (the pole in the barn being
one of them) that rely on the misguided idea that length contraction allows
larger objects (like the pole) to fit inside smaller enclosures (like the
barn) as a byproduct of rapid relative motion. This is not the case"

It is not clear to me who said what, but according to SR you can
(very briefly) fit a long pole into a short barn.


--
Martin Hogbin




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Relevant Pages

  • Re: TOM ROBERTS - Dono is confused, please help him out (was SR cannot determine Contraction)
    ... that there are some indirect results that support length contraction. ... He says the pole and barn thought ... "Uniform relative motion cannot make a longer object fit inside ...
    (sci.physics.relativity)
  • Re: Who hacked Kens presentation?
    ... In IRT there is no paradox.....the pole does not fit into ... pole does fit in the barn. ...
    (sci.physics.relativity)
  • Re: Who hacked Kens presentation?
    ... pole does fit in the barn. ... interpretation of relativity, ...
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  • Re: SR cannot determine Contraction
    ... What I asked is can the pole fit in the ... > barn with both doors closed simultaneously in the barn frame? ... but observations made from another frame cannot possibly affect ... The issue was that you asserted VERY clearly that in the thought experiment, SR would predict that the rod would NOT fit within the barn. ...
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  • Re: SR cannot determine Contraction
    ... The length contraction is a GEOMETRICAL ... PROJECTION that makes the MEASURED length of the pole be shorter than ... the barn with both doors closed. ... individual atoms in the pole frame, ...
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