Re: Circular motion in SR

On Mar 22, 7:27�am, PD <TheDraperFam...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:


But the rotation of the sun is not the standard. The standard is
defined in terms of reproducible physical processes that can be
replicated locally.

Well, The Galilean transformation equations can be referenced to the
rotation of the sun, but not to reproducible physical processes
replicated locally.

By choosing some distant reference, one can *always* impose an
absolute time, sacrificing all locally consistent behavior. That,
however, is not an obviously superior position. It leaves you with the
situation that, in terms of rotations of the sun, an observer at rest
can measure radioactive half-lives, the growth of trees, the
population of bacteria, an AC-circuit resonance period; but as soon as
you go to a frame in which the sun is moving, then you need to *first*
redefine seconds to be in terms of that distant sun's rotation, and
then after doing so you note that all your local radioactive half-
lives, the growth of the trees, the population of bacteria, and the AC-
circuit resonance period have all changed in terms of the new second.
Seems rather stupid, just to preserve the rotation rate of the distant
sun and to preserve a Galilean transformation.

If you make this change just to preserve the Galilean transformation,
and as a result you find that all local physical phenomena now have
different rates, then this *normally* would be an indication that the
Galilean transformation is not a good one to insist on. And in fact,
the Galilean transformation was thought to have value when it was
believed that you would not *have to* do the goofy redefinition of the
second you propose. When it was found out that you'd have to, most
reasonable people began to look for a better transformation than the
Galilean one. You on the other hand, want to preserve the Galilean
transformation, even though it would mean that all local physical
processes would now have different rates. Why you think that's better
is beyond me.

I think that local physical processes having different rates is
reality, and if they are affected by velocity, I believe that there
may be other factors which also affect local physical processes. What
I cannot understand is the position of scientists. Scientific time is
the only measurement of time allowed. OK, so what about your twin
theory? How do they ever get back together according to scientific
time?
If they do, then obviously, there is some measurement of time that
includes the separation of the twins and their reuniting, which could
be calculated in either frame of reference. So, as the Galilean
transformation equations show, there is not a different number of
separatings and reunitings in one frame of reference as compared to
the other. And the twin does not leave and return in one frame of
reference and then wait until he finishes returning in the other. If
time is measured by separatings and reunitings in each frame of
reference, then t'=t, just as the Galilean transformation equations
show. The difference in clock rates will not affect how many times
the twin leaves and returns. But you would have to decide which clock
has the more meaningful time in describing what took place.


�That is why the scientific definition of time as
transitions of a cesuim isotope molecule cannot be defined by the
Galilean transformation equations except by the way I do it.

If the traveling twin comes back, his heart having beaten only half as
many times as his Earth twin's, his hair still brown where the Earth
twin's has turned gray, and with the traveling twin's box containing a
radioactive isotope with an activity rate twice that of the Earth
twin's equivalent box, and the traveling twin's crystal-growing tank
exhibiting half the crystal growth of the Earth twin's equivalent
tank, it makes no sense to say that the traveling twin and all those
processes are nevertheless 40 years older even though by any standard
measure they match what would be expected of those process after 20
years.

Well, think of it this way, suppose both twins observe a planet
revolving around another star during the trip the one twin makes. �The
planet revolves around the star the same number of times during the
trip as seen from the frame of reference of either twin. �So consider
it from the perspective of a scientist on the planet being obeserved.
What is more important to him in terms of measurement of time, the
number of times the traveling twin's heart beats, The color of his
hair, the box containing a radioisotope, the time on the traveling
twin's clock, or the number of times his own planet orbited its star.
The Galilean transformation equations agree with the scientist on the
planet orbiting the star. �Local differences may be interesting, but
they do not control the universe the way scientists on this earth
maintain they do.

That's why we HAVE standards for time that are based on locally
reproducible physical processes, so we don't HAVE to use some
ridiculous and arbitrary standard like the number of rotations of one
star in one galaxy chosen for no particular reason.

That is fine, but if you are going to use the Galilean transformation
equations, there will be a preferred frame of reference.

Agreed. It's just not obvious that the Galilean transformation needs
to be upheld, or that it even really does apply.

Well, I can understand the reluctance of scientists to consider it
after all of the scorn which was heaped on scientists who tried to
hold to Galilean relativity in the early part of the last century, but
those scientists had the disadvantage of never considering anything
except absolute time, so they were doomed to failure. Then there was
also the Nazi thing. Einstein was discredited in Germany, and the
Germans lost two world wars. So why were German scientists in such
high demand after World War II?
They must have been doing something right.

�Generally
speaking that seems to be controlled by the gravitation of the
system. �So if ground control tells an astronaut, Your velocity is 30
miles per second, and the astronaut comes back saying, No, my clock
shows I am going faster than that, then we know which clock to
believe. �

It is not a matter of needing to believe one or the other. It is a
frame-dependent quantity and is known to be frame-dependent, and so
there is no need to assign one or the other as being the one to
believe.

Except that there is a definite circumfrence to the orbit of the
satellite. How does that circumfrence stay the same in a calculation
of the velocity of the satellite and the distance the satellite
travels?


Or else the altitude of the satellite is different in the
frame of reference of the astronaut, or the value of pi changes. �You
scientists never did say which you prefer.

�The traveling twin would just
have a clock that registered less time than the clock of the one on
earth.

[rest ignored because of expiring attention]

Well, I know how boring reality must seem to scientists. �It probably
has a purpose, nonetheless.

Robert B. Winn
.

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