Time Dilation reduces the Speed of moving Objects

Time Dilation reduces the Speed of moving Objects

When Lorentz invented time dilation as part of his contraction
hypothesis he did so to allow the speed of light to remain constant.
He realized that if the length of a moving object contracted, its
time had to slow down or the speed of light would not be constant.
Time dilation restores the speed of light to 300,000km/sec by the
reciprocal factor of the length contraction of the moving object.

Example 1:
An spaceship of 100m length traveling with a speed of 200,000km/sec
would according to the Lorentz transformation (gamma =
sqrt(1-200,000km/sec^2/300,000km/sec^2) = 0.74535599) shrink to
74.535599m (100*gamma). At rest, light will cover 100m in 100m/
300,000,000m/sec = 0.000000333333sec. To cover 74.535599m in
0.000000333333 seconds, the speed of light would only be 223,607,021m/
sec (74.535599m/0.000000333333sec). However, the time dilation factor
of 1.3416408 (1/gamma) restores the speed of light to 300,000,000m/
sec (223,607,021m/sec x 1.3416408). With the artifice of time dilation
the speed of light remains constant.

Lorentz however considered only the effect of time dilation on the
speed of light, not the object. This oversight renders time dilation
invalid. While it is legitimate to apply double standards in politics,
in physics it is not.

Example 2:
The spaceship in example 1 will travel 100,000,000km in 500 seconds
without time dilation but time dilation expands the 500 seconds to
670.82 seconds (500sec*gamma = 500sec*1.3416408 = 670.82sec). As we
now have 670.82secs instead of 500secs and to maintain the
relationship v=d/t, the speed of 200,000km/sec must be reduced to
149,071km/sec (100,000,000km/670.82sec = 149,071km/sec).

Lorentz should not have messed with the relationships v=d/t.

Peter Riedt
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