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Re: Simultaneity - reminder

From Athel Cornish-Bowden <athel.cb@gmail.com>
Newsgroups sci.physics.relativity
Subject Re: Simultaneity - reminder
Date 2023-02-06 17:26 +0100
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On 2023-02-06 16:21:50 +0000, Richard Hachel said:

> Le 06/02/2023 à 08:52, Maciej Wozniak a écrit :
>> Two events are simultaneous when they have the same
>> time coordinate.
> 
>  Only in a Newtonian world.
> 
> But the world is NOT Newtonian.
> 
> There are certain inescapable properties in the world such as universal 
> gravitation.
> 
> For example, the moon revolves around the earth, and it is not by 
> saying "it does not exist" that we will be able to understand why.
> 
> What I would like people to understand, and what I have been trying to 
> get across for years, is that there is no absolute duration (certainly, 
> what everyone learns about banns des faculties), but there is no 
> instant, present, absolute simultaneity either.
> 
> Very strangely, for 40 years that I teach that, I see that everyone 
> loses the pedals, and I don't know why.

Let me ask again, as you haven't answered previously: whom do you teach 
and where do you teach them? The Sorbonne and the Collège de France 
don't seem to have heard of you.
> 
> How is it that you, who are an intelligent and curious critic, cannot 
> be among the first to say:
> "I don't know if Hachel is right, but I admit that his explanations are 
> a matter of profound genius".
> 
> What is blocking you in my explanations?
> 
> What has blocked everyone for 40 years, as soon as I speak of spatial 
> anisochrony and the relativity of punctual simultaneity.
> 
> It is all the more strange that one admits it for the solar hour.
> 
> When it is noon in Paris, it is not noon in San Francisco.
> 
> There is not a single man on earth to contradict that there is no solar 
> simultaneity.
> 
> However, if we transpose this to "global" physical simultaneity, 
> everyone loses the pedal.
> 
> The fact of saying that two watches separated by a distance x will 
> ALWAYS mean that in this benchmark, the two watches will be 
> INACCORDABLE by nature, drives everyone crazy.
> 
> But why? ? ?
> 
> FOR WHAT?
> 
> R.H.


-- 
Athel -- French and British, living in Marseilles for 36 years; mainly 
in England until 1987.

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    Re: Simultaneity - reminder rotchm <rotchm@gmail.com> - 2023-02-07 05:34 -0800
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                Re: Simultaneity - reminder rotchm <rotchm@gmail.com> - 2023-02-07 07:38 -0800
                Re: Simultaneity - reminder Richard Hachel <r.hachel@frite.fr> - 2023-02-07 15:45 +0000
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                Re: Simultaneity - reminder Athel Cornish-Bowden <athel.cb@gmail.com> - 2023-02-07 17:38 +0100
                Re: Simultaneity - reminder Maciej Wozniak <maluwozniak@gmail.com> - 2023-02-07 09:50 -0800
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                Re: Simultaneity - reminder rotchm <rotchm@gmail.com> - 2023-02-07 10:08 -0800
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                Re: Simultaneity - reminder rotchm <rotchm@gmail.com> - 2023-02-07 10:52 -0800
                Re: Simultaneity - reminder Maciej Wozniak <maluwozniak@gmail.com> - 2023-02-07 10:58 -0800
                Re: Simultaneity - reminder rotchm <rotchm@gmail.com> - 2023-02-07 11:55 -0800
                Re: Simultaneity - reminder Maciej Wozniak <maluwozniak@gmail.com> - 2023-02-07 22:28 -0800
                Re: Simultaneity - reminder rotchm <rotchm@gmail.com> - 2023-02-08 02:21 -0800
                Re: Simultaneity - reminder Maciej Wozniak <maluwozniak@gmail.com> - 2023-02-08 02:44 -0800
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                Re: Simultaneity - reminder rotchm <rotchm@gmail.com> - 2023-02-07 10:29 -0800
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