Re: time dilation

On Apr 21, 11:52�pm, Bryan Olson <fakeaddr...@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
rbwinn wrote:
I would pretty much not believe any scientist about anything at this
point, but on the other hand, scientists seem a little overanxious in
this instance to prove something here.

What about the things you can check?

I will put it in context for
you. �Suppose that scientists were right and I had actually written
3D300,000 km per second instead of 300,000 km per second.

How about the actual context that started this thread? I pointed out
that your equation:

| � �t'=(x-vt)/sqrt(1-v2/c2)
<3acd8774-9984-4172-aa66-08cfc1e9b...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

has the units are wrong. No need to trust my quoting; check.

A
reasonable scientist would say, Well, I can see how a person might
believe they had not made an error of that kind even though this one
actually did, and would not make an issue of it. �However, where is
the reasonable scientist?
� � The fact that scientists choose to make this an issue indicates to
me that something is wrong.

So why did you? Why not just say, "oops typo" and let it go?

� � But the fact of the matter is that the question is so trivial that
it has to be seen for what it is, an attempt by scientists to change
the subject from a discussion of relativity to a discussion of
personal issues.

A typo is trivial of course, whether in one's posts or another's quote.
Worth correcting, but no big deal.

A conspiracy theory about scientists deliberately altering one's post
is another matter. Detachment from reality.

Well, I definitely did not write 3D300,000 km per second. If some
scientist went to the trouble of changing that post, there is a good
chance in my opinion that he changed some other ones. As far as the
post you mention is concerned, if this other one had not been changed,
I probably would have said, Oops typo, but I remembered writing the
equation correctly, and I think it was changed.
For one thing, you do not see this sort of thing because you write
posts that are politically correct in the scientific world. Some of
these scientists get so irate with me that they are calling me every
name imaginable and making all sorts of threats. I have seen them
change what I posted in the past. Someone definitely did change this
one, 3D300,000 km per second, right at the time you were pointing out
that this other equation was incorrect. So I am not going to judge
the matter to be one way or the other.
Robert B. Winn
.

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