Recent content by Lincon Ribeiro

I bought the book "The principle of Relativity" by Einstein et al. and was really surprised by the (low) level of explanation by Lorentz regarding the compression of rods on the experiment carried out by Michelson & Morley. I reproduce part of it below: Well, he gave absolutely no arguments to...

I am having a hard time understanding why phase state represents the particle / system path through time and the connection of it with thermodynamic states. Where can I find more info about it? I have been reading Marion's Classical Dynamics, but it did not help. tks

Oops. Sorry for that. I will read it again! I confused the avatars!

I don't know how we separate assumptions from predictions. If I say that space-time is an entity and can be distorted, if we can't find a way to test it, the theory won't last. In my point of view the assumptions will direct affect what we are going to observe. When I started to discuss...

Well, that's where we don't agree. I guess we are going nowhere here. anyway, thanks for the chat. I will think about the insights you all gave. see ya.

What difference does it make if you get the old theory from an upper limit or any other arbitrary direction? My point was that SR is considering space and time as completely different things comparing to old mechanics. This does not make any sense. If I say that the assumptions are: time is...

I never said that Newtonian mechanics was wrong. never said that. I said that there is no such a thing as a convergence from a new theory to an old one based on some arbitrary limit as they start from different assumptions.

Of course the new theory will have to explain the old stuff, but it does not mean that it will "converge" at some point to the old one. there is no connection between the two things. Apart from that: - Newton considered space as an R³ euclidean and time as absolute. - Mass and energy were not...

- "Classical physics is used in an overwhelming majority of situations in our lives." so what? do examples prove that a theory is correct? this argument makes no sense at all. - "any new theory or description must somehow converge and look like the classical physics description under such...