On Sun, August 20, 2017 at 12:29:08 PM UTC-4, Ken Seto wrote:
> "I'm sorry, sir, your dog is dead."
> Bodkin: “What?? My neighbor poisoned my dog."
>
> "No sir, I don't believe so."
> Bodkin: "You just told me my neighbor poisoned my dog."
>
> "No sir, I did not. I said your dog is dead."
> Bodkin: "Yes, that means the same thing."
>
> "No sir. Your dog ran out into the road and was struck by a truck that
> couldn't stop in time. The truck kept going, and I saw it."
> Seto: "Are you saying my dog ran out into the road because he was
> poisoned by my neighbor?"
>
> "No sir, I'm not saying that at all. Nobody said your dog was poisoned
> at all. There are many ways your dog could have died."
> Bodkin: "There is no other way. The only way the dog could be dead is if
> it were poisoned by my neighbor. That's what dead means: neighbor-poisoned."
>
> "Mr. Bodkin, nobody said anything about poison except you."
> Bodkin: "You only say that because you want me to believe that the dog was
> poisoned by my neighbor and also hit by a truck. But these are
> contradictory. Your explanation involves a paradox."
>
> "Mr. Bodkin, I'm trying to explain to you how your dog died."
> Bodkin: "You're trying to get me to believe nonsense like the dog died but
> not from poisoning by my neighbor. The public is fascinated with
> neighbors who poison dogs, and you want me to believe both this and that
> the dog was hit by a truck. You want me to believe in paradoxes, and I'm
> not going to do that."
>
> "Mr. Bodkin, do you want to come look at your dog in the road?"
> Bodkin: "I'm not going to embark on a wild goose chase to look at a
> poison-dead dog in the road. I know more than you about how dogs die
> because I wrote a book about how dogs die. It explains the universe. You
> know nothing about dead dogs."
>
> "I suppose you just want me to leave the dog in the road, then."
> Bodkin: "You can do whatever you want. It's your loss. I already know how
> the dog died."
Since you (Bodkin) own a dog it is more believable the comedy script is modified as above.
Also in the same vein, you believe in Einstein’s shit on length contraction so you, the woodworker, believe anything that physicists invent to explain the length contraction equation.... even after I pointed out to you that length contraction is not material but that the projection of the pole becomes shorter by a factor of 1/gamma and thus can fit into the shorter barn nicely. But you were so ingrained into Einstein’s shit you refused to accept my explanation.
Also I pointed out to you that IRT has similar explanation. The light-path length of the moving pole is foreshortened by a factor of 1/gamma. It is this foreshortened light-path length can be fit into the barn with both doors closed simultaneously. This prediction is based on the assumption that the light-path length of an identical pole in the rest frame of the barn is its material length.
Bodkin my advice to you: go back to woodworking......physics is a little too deep for you and you don’t have the mental capacity to handle it.