[Tom Mattson claimed:]
No, his ability to detect a change in his velocity means that
there is an acceleration according to every frame. And even
the magnitude of the acceleration won't be the same.
There is no way to define the inertial motion or non-motion
of anybody in the universe...
[Tom Mattson claimed:]
There is simply no such thing as absolute inertial motion...
[MM replies:]
Here is a 'counterfact':
That which can change must exist.
An observer in closed lab - with no reference to any outside
observers - can easily detect a change in his velocity;
such...
[Nereid noted:]
Quote:
Originally Posted by Martin Miller
Clearly, instead of teaching and preaching SR, physicists
should be searching for a way to (correctly) synchronize clocks.
Or maybe they will be busy building a GPS system, a Galileo system...
[geistkiesel wrote (in part):]
MM's statement that he wasn't too concerned about the cause of
mass incease and was content to conclude that mass increases was
somhow due to the "nature of space that somehow causes" [the mass
increase]. This sounds like complaceny to me.
[MM replies:]...
[reilly wrote:]
... how do you account for the incredible success of SR kinematics
in particle physics, in which the concept of SR mass plays a critical
role?
[MM replies:]
For most folk, clock rhythm is simpler than mass, so I will use
the former to explain the latter...
['geistkiesel' wrote:]
MM, Does an increase in mass with increase in velocity ...
[MM replies:]
I presume that you are wondering about the physical cause
of (intrinsic) mass increase with speed through space; it
has been suggested that the cause is the Higgs field...
[Reilly Atkinson asked:]
Would you be so kind as to explain the difference between
intrinsic mass and "observer-dependent, point-of-view "masses."
[MM replies:]
This is self-contradictory; you just claimed that my stuff was
given by others decades ago, and now you are saying that you...
[Russ_Watters noted:]
[Martin Miller posted:]
There have been exactly zero tests of SR.
MM, I got to ask: why do you even bother posting here if
all you are going to do is make this same baseless assertion
over and over without backing it up? Why do you...
[Reilly Atkinson wrote:]
[Martin Miller wrote:]
"Einstein's theories ... have been tested in the
crucible of experiment and observation, and have
passed with flying colours."
Sorry to burst your bubble, "Mr. Nereid," but as
far as Einstein's special relativity goes, your
above is...
[ahrkron wrote:]
Now, you need to make clear for us what is the connection between
the light postulate (which is well supported experimentally, as you
seemingly accepted), and your idea of "light's one-way speed between
two clocks".
You need to do so in a way that does not contradict...
[ahrkron wrote:]
Originally Posted by Martin Miller
Who has tested the basis of SR, namely,
the light postulate?
Look at section VII in that page.
[MM replies:]
It is you who needs to look at Section VII because
that section says zilch about light's one-way...
[russ_watters asked:]
Absolute simultaneity? Who said anything about that?
All I said was they synchronize the clocks.
[MM replies:]
You did, "dummy." Absolute synchronization is
synonymous with absolute simultaneity, and one
would assume that your "synchronize the clocks"
means...
[russ_watters claimed:]
Synchronizing clocks is trivially easy and is done all the
time (quite literally).
[MM replies:]
So how do the GPS scientists obtain absolute simultaneity
(or absolute synchronization) in violation of Einstein's
relative simultaneity?
(You do not seem to be...
[Martin Miller wrote:]
Did you know that no one has ever used two clocks in one
frame to measure light's speed? Have you ever wondered
why this is so?
[russ_watters wrote:]
It would surprise me if it hasn't been done, but if it hasn't,
there's a simple reason...
[geistkiesel wrote:]
Synchronizing clocks
What about the following synchronizing model: Two identical
electronic clocks with any necessary resolution, or measured
accuaracy, to what ever is level necessary to satisfy the
constraints of the problem, are attached to two moving...