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Re: Ehrenfest paradox

Newsgroups sci.physics.relativity
Date 2024-01-18 09:15 -0800
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Subject Re: Ehrenfest paradox
From Ross Finlayson <ross.a.finlayson@gmail.com>

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On Wednesday, January 17, 2024 at 10:41:24 PM UTC-8, Thomas Heger wrote:
> Am 17.01.2024 um 20:02 schrieb Richard Hachel: 
> > Le 17/01/2024 à 07:54, Thomas Heger a écrit : 
> >> Am 16.01.2024 um 11:59 schrieb Python: 
> >>> Le 16/01/2024 à 09:44, Thomas Heger a écrit : 
> >>>> Am 15.01.2024 um 21:42 schrieb Volney: 
> >>>>> On 1/15/2024 2:12 AM, Thomas Heger wrote: 
> >>>>>> Am 15.01.2024 um 01:17 schrieb Python: 
> >>>>>> ... 
> >>>>>>>>> 
> >>>>>>>>> A major error of Einstein and SRT is the use of watches per se. 
> >>>>>>>>> 
> >>>>>>>>> The problem is, that light has finite velocity, even if light is 
> >>>>>>>>> very 
> >>>>>>>>> fast. 
> >>>>>>>>> 
> >>>>>>>>> But this finite velocity of light would make remote watches look 
> >>>>>>>>> seemingly too late (by the time the signals of light take to 
> >>>>>>>>> travel 
> >>>>>>>>> from the watch to the observer). 
> >>>>>>>>> 
> >>>>>>>>> Now it would be a VERY (!!!) stupid idea to compensate this 
> >>>>>>>>> difference and adjust one of the clocks, that there is 
> >>>>>>>>> seemingly no 
> >>>>>>>>> deleay. 
> >>>>>>>>> 
> >>>>>>>>> Instead the delay had to be measured and added to the time seen at 
> >>>>>>>>> the remote clock. 
> >>>>>>>>> 
> >>>>>>>> That's exactly how Einstein's clock synchronization method 
> >>>>>>>> works. It 
> >>>>>>>> takes into account the time it takes for a signal to get from the 
> >>>>>>>> local clock to the remote clock and the time it takes for a 
> >>>>>>>> signal to 
> >>>>>>>> get from the remote clock to the local clock. 
> >>>>>>>> 
> >>>>>>> 
> >>>>>>> This has been shown to Thomas several times, his misunderstanding of 
> >>>>>>> paragraph I.1 of Einstein paper is abysmal. He's sticking on the 
> >>>>>>> idiotic claim that if delay is not mentioned then it means that 
> >>>>>>> delay 
> >>>>>>> is ignored... Ironically enough Hachel's claim is that delay 
> >>>>>>> should be 
> >>>>>>> ignored... Cranks are insufferable... 
> >>>>>> 
> >>>>>> 
> >>>>>> This is wrong, because Einstein didn't mention the delay with a 
> >>>>>> single 
> >>>>>> word anywhere in 'On the electrodynamics of moving bodies'!!! 
> >>>>> 
> >>>>> In the formula TA' = TA + 2AB/c, what do you think the AB/c term 
> >>>>> means? 
> >>>>> Where does the 2 come from? 
> >> 
> >> That equation has a different form in Einstein's text: 
> >> 
> >> 2AB/(t'_A - t_A )= c 
> >> 
> >> It's no big deal, of course, but quotes should be verbatim. 
> >> 
> >> The difference is: Einstein meant c and not the delay with this equation. 
> >> 
> >> You changed the order of terms and concluded, that Einstein meant the 
> >> delay. 
> >> 
> >> But there is no evidence at all, that Einstein even considered the 
> >> delay, because the word 'delay' or something equivalent is missing in 
> >> the entire text. 
> >> 
> >> 
> >> 
> >>>> 
> >>>> I know, of course, what that equation means. 
> >>>> 
> >>>> A is a point in space and B is a point in space. The signal starts 
> >>>> from A in direction of B, gets reflected there and reaches A again. 
> >>>> 
> >>>> 2AB/c is incorrect, because a scalar-product of a position vector A 
> >>>> and a position vector B is not a distance. 
> >>>> 
> >>>> But distance from A to B was obviously meant. 
> >>>> 
> >>>> Is it to hard to require a line on top of AB from a professional 
> >>>> physicist? 
> >>>> 
> >>>> ... 
> >>>> 
> >>>> Besides of this: 
> >>>> 
> >>>> Einstein had to have written: this term 2AB/c means e.g. 'the delay of 
> >>>> the signal from A towards B, reflected there and reaching the origin 
> >>>> again' (or something equivalent). 
> >>>> 
> >>>> Just an equation (and a wrong one in this case) is not a statement. 
> >>> 
> >>> 1. The equation is NOT wrong (and your remark about notation AB is 
> >> 
> >> 
> >> Formal requirements are also valid for geniusses! 
> >> 
> >> so: Einstein had to make clear, what he meant with 2AB. 
> >> 
> >> It is obvious from the context, that twice the distance from A to B 
> >> was meant. 
> >> 
> >> Such distances have actually a common notation, (which I cannot easily 
> >> replicate in ASCII), but has a line on top of AB. 
> >> 
> >> If no such line is present, then AB must be interpreted as scalar 
> >> product of two position vectors A and B. 
> >> 
> >> Actually A and B denote points. But you cannot multiply points, 
> >> because points are physical entities, which cannot be multiplied (like 
> >> e.g. you cannot multiply an egg with an apople). 
> >> 
> >> So A and B must be interpreted as position vectors. 
> >> 
> >> Vectors can be multiplied, hence that would be a valid interpretation 
> >> of 2AB. 
> >> 
> >> But 2AB is not twice the distance from A to B. 
> >> 
> >> ... 
> >> 
> >> 
> >> TH 
> > 
> > It is clear that the distance 2AB is worth twice AB. 
> > 
> > Let's stay reasonable. 
> > 
> > Einstein correctly measures Euclid's ametric. 
> > 
> > But where Einstein makes a dramatic error (I know that I am attacking a 
> > God, and that it is not nice) is when he believes that t(AB)=t(BA) for 
> > all observers of the frame . He is completely unaware, it seems, of the 
> > notion of spatial anisochrony like all physicists today.
> One point is: 
> the time for travel from A to B is not t(AB) 
> You could, of course, reduce the notation of t_B - t_A to t(AB). 
> But I'm actually against such short hands. 
> 
> second point 
> 
> Einstein actually assumed t(AB)=t(BA), but didn't mention the requirements. 
> 
> Which are: 
> Euclidean space 
> 'isochrony' 
> stationary situation (neither A nor B shall move) 
> 
> This is especially interesting, because Einstein actually dealt with 
> movement in subsequent chapters and rejected absolute (Euclidean) space 
> and isochrony. 
> 
> TH
> > 
> > Certainly, if I place myself at a point placed equidistant from A and B, 
> > for example on the perpendicular which passes through M in the middle of 
> > AB, I would have t(AB)=t(BA) like Eisntein says it. 
> > 
> > But not if I'm in A, and not if I'm in B. 
> > 
> > It is this difficulty that physicists today do not seem to understand, 
> > due to their abstract religious belief in a “plan of present time”. 
> > 
> > Although I have explained to them how the RR has worked for 40 years, 
> > and why many things are wrong with their geometry, they are absolutely 
> > incapable of questioning or even listening without seeking to humiliate 
> > or even threaten death. 
> > 
> > It's simply incredible and worthy of the greatest Hollywood films. 
> > 
> > R.H.


Actually Einstein's last word on relativity includes a "the time".

I read Einstein's "Out of My Later Years" and it's his last word on relativity.

You can find it under my podcasts at https://www.youtube.com/@rossfinlayson , 
"Reading from Einstein".

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