Re: The concept of proper time

From: Franz Heymann (notfranz.heymann_at_btopenworld.com)
Date: 01/30/05 

Date: Sun, 30 Jan 2005 18:33:35 +0000 (UTC)

"Androcles" <dummy@dummy.com> wrote in message
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>
> <reany@asu.edu> wrote in message
> news:1107093298.436374.225970@c13g2000cwb.googlegroups.com...
> > The concept of proper time is the single most important empirical
> > concept of SR and GR. Without it, Einstein's notion of letting
> > everyone, in whatever frame of reference they are in, get to claim
to
> > be "at rest" falls apart.
> >
> > Patrick
>
> I'm going to ask you about that, but first I need to set the scene.
>
>
> I'm using the term "hypothetical" as a lawyer would. That means it
isn't
> "real", we simply imagine a situation and apply law as if it were
real.
> For example, suppose
> someone walked onto a firing range and was shot. Is it a homicide?
Get
> the idea?
> There is no actual death, we are ony discussing the situation as if
> there were.
>
> I know you have some difficulty distinguishing what is real and what
> isn't, but I'm putting that aside. In what follows, nothing is
real, ok
> ? Nobody is actually going to get hurt. Consider this
hypothetically,
> then:
>
> Sam and Joe are housepainters,

You had your mileage and folk have lampooned you enough about Sam and
Joe in another thread, so I snip it
How about uttering some new crap for us to laugh at?

[snip]

Franz

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