Akinbo Ojo <ta...@hotmail.com>: Nov 23 02:10PM
Hi Cornelis,
The reason why these "good scientists" needed to be educated was because Einstein had said the validity of his Special relativity postulate rested on the assumption that such a preferred
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Andy Schultheis <andre...@gmail.com>: Nov 23 11:19AM -0500
To All,
I do not understand the obsession with a mechanical aether. It has been
ruled out by every serious experiment with real funding and real precision,
or at the very least pushed so far
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Stephan Gift <stepha...@uwi.edu>: Nov 23 04:21PM
Nick,
I do indeed generally reply to your questions even though you may not like my answers. However the same cannot be said about you regarding my questions. I have asked you several questions over
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Stephan Gift <stepha...@uwi.edu>: Nov 23 04:28PM
Andy,
You say “The aether died 150 years ago” and “There is no absolute rest frame.” What then do you make of the Earth-centred Inertial (ECI) frame which is necessary for the accurate
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Andy Schultheis <andre...@gmail.com>: Nov 23 11:42AM -0500
Stephen,
Telling people what to think usually does not end well. The ECI frame is
not an absolute rest frame. It is a local relative rest frame chosen
because it makes the GPS math work cleanly.
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Stephan Gift <stepha...@uwi.edu>: Nov 23 04:49PM
Andy,
The ECI frame is a local inertial frame but it is the only one where light speed is constant and relative to which clocks run slow in a defined manner. It is therefore more than just chosen to
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r.j.an...@btinternet.com r.j.an...@btinternet.com <r.j.an...@btinternet.com>: Nov 23 05:05PM
>> The aether died 150 years ago.<<
did NOT.
There is still the Lorentz ether theory for example.
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Andy Schultheis <andre...@gmail.com>: Nov 23 12:10PM -0500
Stephan,
*“That makes it a preferred frame which many consider an absolute space.”*
And many people once thought the universe revolved around the Earth.
A belief does not overturn
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Andy Schultheis <andre...@gmail.com>: Nov 23 12:25PM -0500
Stephan,
I arrived at my conclusions from an entirely different process, which
happens to land on the nature of reference frames at the fundamental level.
If we accept endlessness as something,
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Stephan Gift <stepha...@uwi.edu>: Nov 23 05:40PM
Andy,
I believe that the ECI frame is more than a convenient frame for GPS calculation and I explained why. We can agree to disagree.
Regards
Stephan
From: Andy Schultheis <andre...@gmail.com>
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r.j.an...@btinternet.com r.j.an...@btinternet.com <r.j.an...@btinternet.com>: Nov 23 05:44PM
none of that makes sense to be..... so - pass
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To: stepha...@uwi.edu Cc: verhey....@gmail.com;
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Andy Schultheis <andre...@gmail.com>: Nov 23 12:44PM -0500
Good luck with that, Stephan.
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Stephan Gift <stepha...@uwi.edu>: Nov 23 05:45PM
Andy,
Good luck to you too!
Stephan
From: Andy Schultheis <andre...@gmail.com>
Sent: Sunday, 23 November 2025 1:45 pm
To: Stephan Gift <stepha...@uwi.edu>
Cc: Cornelis Verhey
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r.j.an...@btinternet.com r.j.an...@btinternet.com <r.j.an...@btinternet.com>: Nov 23 06:05PM
Well let's have a go at the first question; although its not really
clear what is being asked for.
>> What is your mathematical (not descriptive) derivation of the
>> (one-way) light
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Andy Schultheis <andre...@gmail.com>: Nov 23 01:43PM -0500
Caught a mistake in Gemini's analysis.
*"Infinity ([image: image.gif]∞) is defined not as an unreachable quantity,
but as an unbounded process or endlessness."*
This is not what I said.
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Stephan Gift <stepha...@uwi.edu>: Nov 23 07:05PM
Yesterday, James Arathoon gave a quite interesting presentation at the Saturday forum that is well worth watching. He spoke about many aspects of relativistic physics and his perspective on them.
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Stephan Gift <stepha...@uwi.edu>: Nov 23 07:07PM
This lacks rigour, although you arrive at a value c which may make Nick very unhappy!
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Stephan Gift <stepha...@uwi.edu>: Nov 23 07:15PM
Actually, I am not sure what value of light speed you arrive at!
From: Stephan Gift
Sent: Sunday, 23 November 2025 3:07 pm
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r.j.an...@btinternet.com r.j.an...@btinternet.com <r.j.an...@btinternet.com>: Nov 23 07:34PM
see Einstein's paper where I got the equations from -
https://users.physics.ox.ac.uk/~rtaylor/teaching/specrel.pdf
<https://users.physics.ox.ac.uk/~rtaylor/teaching/specrel.pdf>
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Carl Reiff <cre...@elgenwave.com>: Nov 23 01:27PM -0800
I'm going to jump in here. Andy, if the ECI wasn't a real (local to
Earth) preferred/rest frame, the Hafele-Keating experiment would have
had a null result - similar to how MMX had a null result
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AJ <andre...@gmail.com>: Nov 23 05:31PM -0500
Carl,
I think you're responding to something different from what Stephan and I were talking about.
No one here is denying that local preferred frames exist. The ECI is a perfectly valid local
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Stephan Gift <stepha...@uwi.edu>: Nov 23 10:51PM
Andy,
Carl’s response is quite appropriate. You claimed that the ECI frame was merely a local inertial frame “chosen because it makes the GPS math work cleanly. That is all it is.” I argued
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AJ <andre...@gmail.com>: Nov 23 06:16PM -0500
Stephan,
Of course. I know what you implied. And we both agreed to disagree. I'm not sure Carl fully understood the context of our discussion. That's what I wasn't clear on. I was not trying to
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Carl Reiff <cre...@elgenwave.com>: Nov 23 06:33PM -0800
Andy,
I see you've added "universal" as an additional modifier. That makes it
unmistakable. If you used "universal" before, I didn't notice it. To
me, absolute doesn't necessarily imply
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Franklin Hu <frank...@yahoo.com>: Nov 24 03:09AM
Akinbo,
I don't see how this could possibly mean goodbye to longitudinal light waves.
There is no magnetism in a longitudinal waves in an ordinary particulate medium.
If the medium is particulate
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Franklin Hu <frank...@yahoo.com>: Nov 24 03:10AM
We can easily generate strong Khz radio signals (such as AM radio) to be detected by hall detectors. Speed is not the problem.
-Franklin
On Friday, November 21, 2025 at 12:28:46 AM PST, Akinbo
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Cornelis Verhey <verhey....@gmail.com>: Nov 23 09:28PM -0700
Stephan,
"I argued that it is more since light speed there is c and clocks slow
(according to the usual gamma factor) relative to that inertial frame only
and no other."
The same is true for
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Stephan Gift <stepha...@uwi.edu>: Nov 24 08:08AM
Cornelis,
I am not contending that the ECI frame is universal. As I have stated, it is local. However it is not merely a convenient reference frame for GPS calculations. The calculation for satellite
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Akinbo Ojo <ta...@hotmail.com>: Nov 24 08:30AM
Franklin,
See below follow up from AI, how do you respond?
[24/11, 07:01] Akinbo: Can Hall sensors detect magnetic fields in kHz range like AM radio?
[24/11, 07:02] Meta AI: Hall sensors can
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Akinbo Ojo <ta...@hotmail.com>: Nov 24 08:45AM
Hi Carl,
You said this in recent reply to me: “If it hasn't dawned on you yet. I don't use gamma according to SR - in that SR has no preferred frame. I am definitely a preferred frame kind of
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Akinbo Ojo <ta...@hotmail.com>: Nov 24 08:59AM
Franklin,
I am in full agreement with you that if the medium is particulate, then it must support a longitudinal wave by definition.
*Do you believe or accept that transverse mechanical waves
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Andy Schultheis <andre...@gmail.com>: Nov 24 05:01AM -0500
Carl,
No need to apologize, Carl. These conversations aren't formal, and we can
be somewhat loose in our terminology unintentionally.
I will say, whenever someone refers to a frame as
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Andy Schultheis <andre...@gmail.com>: Nov 24 06:19AM -0500
Carl,
And just for fun, I plugged that previous email I just sent into Gemini,
which possesses a hardened view of mainstream physics.
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Akinbo Ojo <ta...@hotmail.com>: Nov 24 12:13PM
Hi Stephan,
Special relativity (SR), and I believe Lorentz ether transformation (LET) admit that the relativistic equations apply to light itself, which is why the path length of light can be
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