Re: Is "malfunctioning" absolute or relative?

Eric Gisse wrote:

Why is it misleading? Like the stick through water, rotation of a
stick about an angle, and moving further away from something, the
Lorentz transformations of special relativity change apparent distance
through projection effects.

The way you phrase it, it isn't misleading, because you make it
clear that geometry plays a central role, and do not resort to
metaphysical sewage by claiming (as Ben does) that special
relativity has some immutable definition of a "real" clock rate.
Once you understand the basis of relativity, as you obviously do,
it's no problem to evaluate the sound-byte "moving clocks run
slow". For beginners who haven't yet grasped the role of
symmetry and geometry, Ben's phony claim to the truth obscures
this central fact, and it leads people to think that something
"happens to a clock" e.g when you move away from it.

The real horse*** pedagogy is attempting to teach the stupid. I know
this goes against the grain of professional teachers like Paul, but
people like space*** and strich are just gaming the system in an
attempt to score some kind of points against physics. I don't know how
they are scoring, and I don't really care - it just needs to stop.

I don't think it matters much. The troll-enablers can be ignored
as easily as the trolls.


---Tim Shuba---
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