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Re: Experiments Refute Einstein's 1905 Second Postulate

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Am Freitag000019, 19.05.2023 um 20:23 schrieb Tom Roberts:
> On 5/12/23 1:27 PM, Tom Capizzi wrote:
>> You "experts" can't even agree on whether length contraction is 
>> physical or not.
> 
> The problem is that "physical" is not well defined -- what do YOU mean
> by that word (be specific)?
> 
> Consider a rod of length L at rest in inertial frame S, aligned along
> the x axis. An inertial frame S' moving relative to S with speed v along
> the x axis will measure its length to be L*sqrt(1-v^2/c^2). That
> is what is meant by "length contraction" [#].
> 
> It OUGHT to be obvious that measurements by moving observers cannot
> possibly affect the rod itself. So in that sense, "length contraction"
> is not "physical" -- the rod is not affected [#].

Well, yes.

But actually the measurements of a remote observer, passing by at 
significant velocity, is irrelevant (at least for the rod).

So, it's all BS we're talking about?


...

TH

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