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Re: Ehrenfest paradox

From Thomas Heger <ttt_heg@web.de>
Newsgroups sci.physics.relativity
Subject Re: Ehrenfest paradox
Date 2024-01-22 07:28 +0100
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Am 21.01.2024 um 19:58 schrieb Volney:
> On 1/20/2024 4:39 AM, Thomas Heger wrote:
>> Am 19.01.2024 um 17:39 schrieb Volney:
>>> On 1/17/2024 1:58 AM, Thomas Heger wrote:
>>>
>>>> But 2AB is not twice the distance from A to B.
>>>
>>> And why do you claim that?
>>
>> Multiplication is assumed, if no operator is present between two
>> variables in an equation.
>
> A and B are points, not variables. AB is the distance between A and B.

Sure.

But usually the path from A to B is a vector.

The length of this vector is called 'distance'.

therefore distance(A,B) = |vect(A->B)|

AB is not really a distance, but a shorthand for distance (used by a 
lazy physicist).

I had ciriticised this, because I had the role of a professor, who had 
to write corrections for the homework of a student (Albert Einstein in 
this case) and have a policy of formal striktness.

It is a very small error, but is not correct neither.

So I took my virtuall pen and marked this equation as faulty.

Not that small was Einstein's habit to switch between vectors and 
scalars without any notice and not to mark vectors as such at all.


...


TH

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