Re: Einstein's Train Gedanken Re-visited

On Jun 14, 8:30 am, Uncle Ben <b...@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Jun 14, 6:46 am, "Androcles" <Headmas...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:> "G" <gehan.ameresek...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message

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On Jun 13, 6:16 pm, "Androcles" <Headmas...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

http://tinyurl.com/c53cqo

Thanks for the hyperlink, but I have read the scruffy rat theory and
it is not clear to me where A and B are

Let me put it this way;

...

No, let's not. Instead, let's help Androcles sort out his scruffy
story.



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The references to A and B are found in Einstein's famous 1905 paper

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that shook the world. In particular they refer to a thought xperiment
described the first section, called the "Kinematical Part", after the
introduction, in subsection 2.

There Einstein first raises the question, if clocks are synchronized
in one inertial frame of reference, are they thereby also synchronized
with respect to another frame of reference in motion with respect to
the first.  His result, no, they are not.


In fact, a later paper has a

--> mathematically formal statement <---

that quantifies exactly how they are not synchronised.

<<... the four-dimensional space-time continuum
of the theory of relativity, in its most essential
formal properties, shows a pronounced relationship
to the three-dimensional continuum of Euclidean
geometrical space. 1 In order to give due prominence
to this relationship, however, we must replace
the usual time co-ordinate t by an imaginary
magnitude

sqrt(-1)

ct proportional to it. Under these conditions,
the natural laws satisfying the demands of the
(special) theory of relativity assume mathematical
forms, in which the time co-ordinate plays exactly
the same role as the three space co-ordinates. >>
http://www.bartleby.com/173/17.html

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coordinate_time
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Einstein_synchronisation


Sue...

[Straw men and straw grasping of demented
ether die-hard snipped ]


Uncle Ben

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