On Friday, November 20, 2020 at 10:52:40 AM UTC-6, tjrob137 wrote:
> On 11/19/20 2:48 PM, Ed Lake wrote:
> > Actually, Tom, I have read a great deal about this subject, including
> > just about everything Albert Einstein wrote about time dilation.
> You mean that your eyes have traversed the words. Reading implies
> understanding, and it is QUITE CLEAR that you do not understand very
> basic concepts of SR.
>
> Einstein's writings are particularly BAD for someone
> like you, because he was writing for an audience of
> physicists. You CLEARLY do not understand the meanings
> of many of the important words he used, so how can you
> possibly hope to understand his writings? Your failure
> includes mistakenly thinking the brief descriptions in
> his introduction are the actual statements of his
> postulates (they aren't, and he clearly says so, but
> you are unable to read it).
> > Mathematicians can't cope with it because they REQUIRE that all
> > motion be relative to some OBJECT.
> This is just two of your very many MISCONCEPTIONS:
> a) we are PHYSICISTS, not "mathematicians" (the two fields
> are quite different -- your IGNORANCE is showing).
If all your arguments and thought processes are based upon math, then
you are a mathematician even if you claim to be a physicist.
> b) motion need not be relative to some object, but SPEED
> and VELOCITY are always measured with respect to to a
> specified COORDINATE SYSTEM.
Yes, Tom, that is what mathematicians BELIEVE. However, Einstein
discovered that speed and velocity can also be measured with
respect to Nature's MAXIMUM allowed speed, which is the speed
of light. Measuring speeds relative to the speed of light gives you
a TRUE speed. Measuring speeds relative to some "coordinate
system" gives you a mathematical conclusion, which might have
nothing to do with reality.
>
> Your repetitions merely prove my point: you do not understand this.
> Everything you write around here is useless, and nearly all of it is
> flat-out WRONG.
Declarations of your beliefs mean nothing, Tom. Do you deny that speeds
CAN be measured relative to the speed of light? It cannot be denied,
so your insistence on measuring speeds relative to some "coordinate
system" just shows that you have DOGMATIC BELIEFS which conflict
with reality and prevent you from doing things correctly.
>
> Have you realized yet that inside the back of a closed
> truck, no radar gun can possibly determine the truck's
> speed relative to the ground?
> -- That is a primary instance of your grotesque lack
> of understanding of very basic physics.
Declarations of your beliefs mean nothing, Tom. The truck IS moving.
That means emissions from the radar gun will hit the walls at c+v or c-v.
And those photon emissions "reflected" from the walls will hit the radar gun
at c-v or c+v, which will cause the gun to compute the speed of the wall as zero.
All that is needed to measure the speed of a truck from inside the
truck is a way to perform only ONE measurement. My paper explains
how that can be done:
https://vixra.org/pdf/2010.0141v2.pdf
Ed