Re: Are physics cranks employed?


"PD" <TheDraperFamily@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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| Sorcerer wrote:
| > "PD" <TheDraperFamily@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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| > | Sorcerer wrote:
| > | > My definition of a crank is someone that unthinkingly accepts
| > | > such garbage as the "Lorentz" cuckoo transformations without
| > | > examining thoroughly their derivation. PD is a crank.
| > | > Androcles
| > |
| > | Yes, I know what your idea of a crank is.
| > | Unfortunately, "examining thoroughly their derivation" means to you
| > | ONLY looking at the original paper and the particular choice of words
| > | in that paper,
| >
| > I don't care about words, the equations are what matter. You can prattle
| > on about words until the cows come home because you are a crank.
| > FORTUNATELY, I'm not a crank.
|
| Then do describe, using equations only and not words (because they
| don't matter), the difference between x' and xi in Einstein's 1905
| paper On the Electrodynamics of Moving Bodies.

x' = x-vt
xi = x'/sqrt(1-v^2/c^2)
xi-x' = xi[1- 1/sqrt(1-v^2/c^2)]
x'-xi = -xi[1- 1/sqrt(1-v^2/c^2)]
Androcles





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