Path: csiph.com!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: Thomas Heger Newsgroups: sci.physics.relativity Subject: Re: Annotated version of SRT Date: Wed, 06 Apr 2022 08:01:45 +0200 Lines: 37 Message-ID: References: <281fd598-47ff-48dc-9083-d092f3deb990n@googlegroups.com> <2bdf54d6-0e96-4d0f-90fc-5a07a87810b4n@googlegroups.com> <6ca88e7e-8ad2-4b05-a152-c519063dec5dn@googlegroups.com> <44d26ee9-6af6-46d7-bfa0-487493f14570n@googlegroups.com> <5b55ae6d-ce63-43f4-82f3-ebbdde68022cn@googlegroups.com> <1ppxmpz.1jt54p46i26cN%nospam@de-ster.demon.nl> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: individual.net rh+L9BgCNm3rkIH7QIDZygw4IDJvMss09phl5CAlf6VyyRAD2Y Cancel-Lock: sha1:RwkW67uJMuOdpxdiOyBY00Wq7jU= User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.0; WOW64; rv:31.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/31.4.0 In-Reply-To: Xref: csiph.com sci.physics.relativity:582014 Am 05.04.2022 um 12:15 schrieb Maciej Wozniak: >>>> Well, actually, if two numbers have no units, yes, absolutely you can add >>>> or subtract them. As in, 1-v/c. 1- v/c is actually just a number. >>> You can add the number of people on the internation space station to the >>> number of holes in your socks, if you like to do that. >>> >>> But the question is, whether such an opreation makes sense. >>> >>> In theoretical physics you are simply not allowed to add random numbers, >>> just because the units match. >> I may surprise you very much to learn this, >> but people who actually do theoretical physics >> never do things at random. Actually, random behaviour is quite common in the real world. Many things behave in unpredictable ways, hence are certainly modelled with random numbers. (at least they should be). >> They know what they are doing. (hint hint) I have doubts. Human nature is often only half-concess. > And when they scream, that "we all are FORCED!!! > To THE BEST WAY!!!" - they know it for sure. If coherence is introduced by force, we had a guarantee, that things go wrong. TH