Re: Is Lorentz contraction objectively real?
From: Creighton Hogg (wchogg_at_hep.wisc.edu)
Date: 09/13/04
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Date: Mon, 13 Sep 2004 11:18:25 -0500
On Mon, 13 Sep 2004, Gregory L. Hansen wrote:
> In article <4144ebfb@sys13.hou.wt.net>,
> Eugene Shubert <http://www.everythingimportant.org> wrote:
>
> >Lorentz contraction is coordinate dependent. It is subjective,
> >misleading and not objectively real.
>
> Frame dependent, not coordinate dependent.
>
> And it's just like velocity in Newtonian mechanics, which is also frame
> dependent. That means velocity is subjective, misleading, and not
> objectively real.
>
> Whatever shall we do?
Get stinking drunk and try running into walls? If velocity is misleading
and not objectively real, then neither is kinetic energy.
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