Re: Is there length contraction in SRT, uncle Ben?

Martin Hogbin wrote:
Ben Bean wrote:
[...] obvious, is the fact that Relativity stands up to every scrutiny.
It's essence is the denial of the feasibility of a God's-Eye View of
our universe.

Only in Galilean space and time. In Minkowski
spacetime there is no problem

Martin Hogbin

No lacking of a God's-Eye View in Minkowski??? I know a smidgeon of what you speak and
I have to refute your claim. According to one observer, he sees a distant star that is
soon to meet a violent demise; while another observer sees only a blank area where
that star used to be. Both views are correct, so there's no master 'actuality' (for
lack of a better term). The Minkowski construct cannot possibly change that.

And I do note well that you refer to the lacking (of a singular God's-Eye view) as a
"problem". What Nature dictates is no problem. We exist just fine. Perhaps I mistook
your reply



.

Relevant Pages

  • Re: More Trivialities
    ... Minkowski metric, above. ... You asked for a calculation of proper time. ... observer would say event A occurred "before" event B. ... events doesn't seem to indicate the presence of a "causal connection" in ...
    (sci.physics.relativity)
  • Re: EP and Unruh - effect (Layman)
    ... > A good example is the one I've been looking at, lately, in Minkowski ... The horizon for the Unruh effect is the boundary of the Rindler wedge, ... this represents INERTIAL motion of the observer on the ... The coarse-graining, in specific, comes from the fact that the densely ...
    (sci.physics.research)
  • Re: Misinterpretation of the radial parameter in the Schwarzschild solution?
    ... equation forces on spacetime, so the "natural" method of keeping track ... intuitive than initially anticipated so the observer then presumably ... that the geometry is locally Minkowski - yet here you seem to be saying ... I think their physicality is the same, ...
    (sci.physics.relativity)