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Re: Einstein's 1905 nonsense about simultaneity highlighted even more trivially

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On 06-Nov-21 9:24 am, Giovanni wrote:
> Bob is in the center of the station and Alice is in the center of the train.
> 
> When the train crosses the station and Bob is directly in front of Alice, two lightning strikes hit the head and tail of the train.
> 
> Bob tells Alice:
> 
> - two lightning strikes simultaneously hit the train, but not for you, because you, advancing together with the train, first saw the luminous wave front arriving from the head of the train and then the one starting from the tail of the train.
> 
> Alice tells Bob:
> 
> - you are crazy, look that although I was sleeping at that moment, I am able to prove you wrong, and in fact when the two lightning strikes woke me up, I went to examine the charred dead canary in the cage placed at the head of the train, and the dead canary charred in the cage placed at the end of the train, well, both were dead at the same time.
> 
> Giovanni from Italy.
> 

What puzzles me is why you think your assumptions about how this would 
unfold prove anything.

Sylvia.

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Einstein's 1905 nonsense about simultaneity highlighted even more trivially Giovanni <giannifree@gmail.com> - 2021-11-05 15:24 -0700
  Re: Einstein's 1905 nonsense about simultaneity highlighted even more trivially Sylvia Else <sylvia@email.invalid> - 2021-11-06 10:14 +1100
  Re: Einstein's 1905 nonsense about simultaneity highlighted even more trivially whodat <whodaat@void.nowgre.com> - 2021-11-05 18:17 -0500
    Re: Einstein's 1905 nonsense about simultaneity highlighted even more trivially Giovanni <giannifree@gmail.com> - 2021-11-05 17:55 -0700
  Re: Einstein's 1905 nonsense about simultaneity highlighted even more trivially Giovanni <giannifree@gmail.com> - 2021-11-05 17:38 -0700
    Re: Einstein's 1905 nonsense about simultaneity highlighted even more trivially Michael Moroney <moroney@world.std.spaamtrap.com> - 2021-11-05 23:40 -0400
      Re: Einstein's 1905 nonsense about simultaneity highlighted even more trivially Giovanni <giannifree@gmail.com> - 2021-11-06 02:32 -0700
        Re: Einstein's 1905 nonsense about simultaneity highlighted even more trivially Sylvia Else <sylvia@email.invalid> - 2021-11-06 21:56 +1100
          Re: Einstein's 1905 nonsense about simultaneity highlighted even more trivially Giovanni <giannifree@gmail.com> - 2021-11-06 04:14 -0700
            Re: Einstein's 1905 nonsense about simultaneity highlighted even more trivially Giovanni <giannifree@gmail.com> - 2021-11-06 04:39 -0700
              Re: Einstein's 1905 nonsense about simultaneity highlighted even more trivially Giovanni <giannifree@gmail.com> - 2021-11-06 04:48 -0700
            Re: Einstein's 1905 nonsense about simultaneity highlighted even more trivially Sylvia Else <sylvia@email.invalid> - 2021-11-07 09:20 +1100
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              Re: Einstein's 1905 nonsense about simultaneity highlighted even more trivially Giovanni <giannifree@gmail.com> - 2021-11-07 04:20 -0800
        Re: Einstein's 1905 nonsense about simultaneity highlighted even more trivially Michael Moroney <moroney@world.std.spaamtrap.com> - 2021-11-06 13:19 -0400
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    Re: Einstein's 1905 nonsense about simultaneity highlighted even more trivially whodat <whodaat@void.nowgre.com> - 2021-11-06 10:35 -0500
      Re: Einstein's 1905 nonsense about simultaneity highlighted even more trivially Arindam Banerjee <banerjeeadda1234@gmail.com> - 2021-11-06 13:24 -0700
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