On 06.10.2012 16:56, Big Dog wrote:
> On 10/6/2012 9:45 AM, kenseto wrote:
>> Paul Andersen said:
>> From the cosmic muon's point of view the earth is moving close to c
>> toward it.
>> Since there are zillions of muons surrounding the earth, that
>> would mean that the earth must move in different directions
>> simultaneously to meet these zillions of muons and that
>> would cause it to explode long time ago. Thank God it didn't.
>
> Good lord what a bonehead.
>
> In order to make it clearer for you, let me restate what Paul Anderson
> was trying to say in sharper, cleaner terms so that you cannot possibly
> misunderstand it.
For your information:
This is an old story, from 2000:
http://tinyurl.com/8b6j69a
As you can see, my statement was:
| The muon's proper lifetime never change.
| But in the muon's stationary frame the distance from the
| top of the atmosphere to the ground is so short that the fast
| moving ground has ample time to come up and hit the muon
| during its very short lifetime.
Ken found this hilarious and has presented his
"exploding Earth theory" many times since then.
And no, your rewording of Ken's (mis)quotation,
won't make him understand. :-)
Ken doesn't understand much.
>
> "From a reference frame in which a particular cosmic muon is at rest,
> the earth is moving at a speed close to c toward it."
>
> Note that there is no frame in which all the cosmic ray muons
> approaching the earth are at rest, though there is ALWAYS at least one
> frame in which at least one of the muons is at rest.
>
> Paul Anderson thought that you would be able to see that his statement
> and mine are identical, but you have a demonstrated inability to see
> things like that, and you blame others when you cannot see it.
>
>> The other explanation is that Andersen's understanding of
>> relativity is kind of faulty....or the SR interpretation of
>> the muon's point of view is a bunch of Bull.
>>
>
> Translation: "The other explanation for why I, Seto, cannot understand
> what people like Anderson are saying is that it's their fault, not mine,
> and what they are describing is bull."
>
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Paul
http://www.gethome.no/paulba/