Re: Motion Through Space Is Meaningful

PD wrote:
> SR can correctly measure relative speeds, if "measure"
> is taken to be an operational definition that says that
> it is a measurement that can be taken by independent
> observers who will get the same result. In this case,
> it doesn't matter whether the measurements of length and
> time are true or distorted or relative. The operational
> definition works.

In other words, SR can 'measure' relative speeds if we don't
care if the results are correct or not.

PD wrote:
> Whether SR is the "true story" or whether another scheme
> which claims measurements are not relative but physically
> distorted is the "true story", is a question that is left
> to Occam's Razor. It is not a sound reason for rejecting SR.

The use of measuring instruments which have not been
proved to be sound is a sound reason for rejecting SR.

Also, the facts that SR does not pertain to physical rod
lengths, physical clock rhythms, or physical masses are
sound reasons to reject SR.

Furthermore, the fact that SR has no physical explanation
for the Michelson-Morley null result is a sound reason to
reject SR.

Moreover, the fact that there is no basis for Einstein's
light postulate (which was given as the basis of SR) is a
sound reason to reject SR as a scientific theory (because
it has no basis).

In short, the fact that SR does not pertain to physics is
a sound reason to reject SR.

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2nd Postulate Dude

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