Re: Androcles's accusations of lying



"It's like you've created a whole universe of strawmen who exist only
so that you can throw them into the firy furnace of hell while you
laugh gleefully. No, Androcles.  How could I match this limitless
power?  You are not bound by politeness, not bound by truth, not
bound
by any comprehensible theory, not bound by evidence, and not bound by
the scientific method.  You are drunk on this power of creating
straw-
men from nothing, and I cannot stop you.

Sometimes, I have no idea what you're talking about at all, yet I'm
sure all those poor straw men you've created are doomed to eternal
damnation... and that too, makes me sad.  How could a creator be so
cruel to his creations? I feel bad for not being able to defend them,
but they really don't deserve to be saved. " - Jonathan Doolin, Jan 9,
2009

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A:
The only strawman I see here is Einstein. Is any of that drivel on topic?
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All of it is.

The point being, that you think it is impossible for the speed of
light to be constant in all inertial reference frames, yet, we have
the Lorentz Transformation Equations.

Let me help. For instance, if someone says "there is no such thing as
an isosceles triangle." Then someone comes up and drops one at their
feet, whether the first person acknowledges its existence or not, the
isosceles triangle is still there.

It is the same with this argument. You are saying there is no way to
preserve the speed of light in all inertial reference frames. But
Lorentz comes up with the Lorentz Transformations in 1904. You can
talk your head off saying they don't make sense, or they don't work as
advertised, but the fact of the matter is, they DO exactly what they
DO, and no amount of rhetoric is going to stop a matrix from operating
on a vector.
.

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