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

You really ought to leave some indication of
who the hell you are talking to, Perry.

"RP" <no_mail_no_spam@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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You've blinded yourself.

In Lorentz's theory the helicity of the shafts is due to measurement
error only. The moving observers' clocks and measuring sticks are out
of calibration wrt those in the proper frame. Thus, if a moving
observer measures by means of light signals the rotational phases of
the gear at different points along x, and assumes incorrectly that the
signals propagate at c wrt him, then he will get strange albeit
noncontradictory results..

Niether shaft will be helical wrt proper frame, however, and since the
proper frame determines the "actual" state, then there is no
contradiction. The transformation doesn't change the physical state,
but only the perception of it.

But in Eirstein's view the helicity of the moving shaft is not merely
a measurement artifact, but an actual deformation of one shaft wrt the
other, i.e., of moving clocks wrt each other.

Lorentz's view of the twins paradox also differs considerably.
If the platform on which both twins are initially located is moving at
v wrt proper frame, and then one twin decelerates to zero speed wrt
proper frame, he is now aging (objectively) faster than the twin on
the platform. When he accelerates back to v, the two are aging at
equal rates once more. The displacement that has accrued between them
isn't an issue, as you'll see.

If the platform then decelerates to zero speed wrt proper frame, then
the two can walk over to each other at equal speeds and compare their
relative ages, and find that the twin who never left the platform is
the younger of the two..

This same sequence, from Einstein's perspective, and letting the
platform represent the proper frame, would call for quite the opposite
conclusion. The traveling twin ages less.

Go work on your "philosophy" on your own time. This is not a
philosophical difference being discussed here. The theories are not
equivalent. This means that your "Lorentz" approach to a solution to
the paradox is a strawman. You can't provide a solution in special
relativity because there isn't one.




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