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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 07:34 +0100
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Am 21.01.2024 um 19:51 schrieb Volney:
> On 1/21/2024 2:02 AM, Thomas Heger wrote:
>> Am 19.01.2024 um 17:37 schrieb Volney:
>>
>>>>>>> In the formula TA' = TA + 2AB/c, what do you think the AB/c term
>>>>>>> means?
>>>>>>> Where does the 2 come from?
>>>>>>
>>>>>> 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.
>>>>>
>>>>> Why did you write such a goofball statement like that? Einstein never
>>>>> used the scalar products, those are distances.
>>>>
>>>> What do you mean are distances?
>>>
>>> As Einstein stated, AB is the distance from A to B and BA is the
>>> distance from B to A. Since he was discussing the simple one dimensional
>>> light beam from A to B and back, there's absolutely no reason for
>>> obfuscation like scalar products and position vectors.
>>
>> A and B were defined as points in space.
>
> And AB is the distance from A to B.
>>
>> But since when is space one dimensional?
>>
> Since the light goes from A to B and back to A, everything happens in
> one dimension. Define the X axis as along the AB axis and the Y and Z
> axes can be ignored as irrelevant.

I know what you mean, of course.

But you're nevertheless wrong, because 'everything happens in  one 
dimension'  is nonsense.

Actually 'everything happens in three dimensions' (if you ignore time).

A ray of light could be approximated by a single line, but simply is not 
a one-dimensional line.

Lines are mathematical objects and rays are physical objects, hence 
cannot possibly become equal.


TH

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