Re: SR's velocity addition -- ANY Experimental Evidence?

From: Timo Nieminen (timo_at_physics.uq.edu.au)
Date: 07/25/04 

Date: Mon, 26 Jul 2004 08:11:46 +1000

On Fri, 23 Jul 2004, Dirk Van de moortel wrote:

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> "Androcles" <androc1es@nospamblueyonder.co.uk> wrote in message news:9j7Mc.6170$lr2.63140990@news-text.cableinet.net...
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> [snip]
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> > Timo simply doesn't understand mathematics, Jim. Nor did Einstein.
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> They didn't understand equations:
> http://users.pandora.be/vdmoortel/dirk/Physics/Fumbles/SetSolve.html
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I liked this recent one:
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>From androc1es@nospamblueyonder.co.uk Mon Jul 26 08:09:53 2004
Date: Fri, 23 Jul 2004 02:43:48 GMT
From: Androcles <androc1es@nospamblueyonder.co.uk>
Newsgroups: sci.physics, sci.physics.relativity
Subject: Re: SR's velocity addition -- ANY Experimental Evidence?

Vector to the airport. No problem. Vector home again. No problem. Vector to
tomorrow (avoid it if you can). Vector to yesterday. No way.
Of course ordinary language uses terms such as "ago". But you have no
control of yesterday, and you cannot go there. "Vector" is a precise
mathematical term, described by axioms. Force is a vector, you can pull the
other way. Time is not a vector, you cannot go back in time. Now, since you
prefer to use ordinary English in your vague definitions, and I prefer
precise mathematical descriptions, there can be no meeting of the minds.

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