Re: May sound silly, but then it isn't my theory.



harry wrote:
A few years ago I went through
exactly the same proces as you now, for at first sight it seemed plausible
that rotation of "rigid" shafts could break the PoR. I had in mind to do an
experiment to break the PoR and I read all the literature about it, with an
unexpecrted result.
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What result, The Galilean one?

Wrt one observer, in the srt context, his gearings are straight and
run parallel to each other. This is by definition of initial
conditions. Wrt the same observer the other shaft's gearings are
helical. How much math would it take to convince you that a straight
line cannot be superposed over a helix, or two show that the spin
rates are unequal?
I was also once in your shoes, briefly.

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