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Re: Division by zero

From Thomas Heger <ttt_heg@web.de>
Newsgroups sci.physics.relativity
Subject Re: Division by zero
Date 2025-02-02 07:58 +0100
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Am Sonntag000002, 02.02.2025 um 03:19 schrieb Ross Finlayson:
> On 02/01/2025 01:36 AM, Mikko wrote:
>> On 2025-02-01 08:14:08 +0000, Thomas Heger said:
>>
>>> Hi NG
>>>
>>> I'm actually not really certain, but found an error in Einstein's 'On
>>> the electrodynamics of moving bodies' which is quite serious.
>>>
>>>
>>> See page six, roughly in the middle:
>>>
>>> There we find an equation, which says this:
>>>
>>> ∂τ/∂y= 0
>>
>> Do you mean on page 899 (9th page of the article) in §3?
>> The operation is not division but a partial derivative.
>>
>>> Now, 'tau' is a time belonging to the moving system k.
>>
>> Yes, but it is also a number that is computed from coordinates of K.
>>
>>> This system k moves along the x-axis of system K with velocity v,
>>> while x- and xsi-axis coincide and etha- and y axis remain parallel.
>>>
>>> In other words v_y is permanently zero,
>>
>> Yes,
>>
>>>  or: ∂y=0.
>>
>> No. ∂y is not a number but a part of an operator. There are points with
>> different values of y and ∂/∂y refers to a line where t, x, and z (but 
>> not
>> y) have the same value at every point.
>>
>> See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Partial_derivative
>>
> 
> Zero meters/second is infinity seconds/meter.
> 
yes, but that was my complain!

If there is not movement along the y-axis, then time tau would pass, but 
y would remain zero.

This would mean, that ∂τ/∂y= infinity  (and NOT zero).

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Division by zero Thomas Heger <ttt_heg@web.de> - 2025-02-01 09:14 +0100
  Re: Division by zero Mikko <mikko.levanto@iki.fi> - 2025-02-01 11:36 +0200
    Re: Division by zero Ross Finlayson <ross.a.finlayson@gmail.com> - 2025-02-01 18:19 -0800
      Re: Division by zero Thomas Heger <ttt_heg@web.de> - 2025-02-02 07:58 +0100
        Re: Division by zero Mikko <mikko.levanto@iki.fi> - 2025-02-02 11:40 +0200
          Re: Division by zero "Paul.B.Andersen" <relativity@paulba.no> - 2025-02-03 12:27 +0100
        Re: Division by zero (0, 1, infinity) Ross Finlayson <ross.a.finlayson@gmail.com> - 2025-02-02 07:45 -0800
    Re: Division by zero Thomas Heger <ttt_heg@web.de> - 2025-02-02 07:52 +0100
      Re: Division by zero Thomas Heger <ttt_heg@web.de> - 2025-02-02 09:26 +0100
        Re: Division by zero Mikko <mikko.levanto@iki.fi> - 2025-02-02 11:38 +0200
          Re: Division by zero Thomas Heger <ttt_heg@web.de> - 2025-02-03 09:14 +0100
            Re: Division by zero Mikko <mikko.levanto@iki.fi> - 2025-02-03 17:20 +0200
              Re: Division by zero Thomas Heger <ttt_heg@web.de> - 2025-02-04 08:16 +0100
                Re: Division by zero Mikko <mikko.levanto@iki.fi> - 2025-02-05 09:48 +0200
                Re: Division by zero Thomas Heger <ttt_heg@web.de> - 2025-02-05 10:09 +0100
      Re: Division by zero Mikko <mikko.levanto@iki.fi> - 2025-02-02 11:30 +0200
        Re: Division by zero Thomas Heger <ttt_heg@web.de> - 2025-02-03 08:56 +0100
          Re: Division by zero Athel Cornish-Bowden <me@yahoo.com> - 2025-02-03 10:02 +0100
            Re: Division by zero Thomas Heger <ttt_heg@web.de> - 2025-02-03 11:17 +0100
            Re: Division by zero Thomas Heger <ttt_heg@web.de> - 2025-02-03 11:17 +0100
          Re: Division by zero Mikko <mikko.levanto@iki.fi> - 2025-02-03 17:51 +0200
            Re: Division by zero Maciej Wozniak <mlwozniak@wp.pl> - 2025-02-03 17:33 +0100
            Re: Division by zero Thomas Heger <ttt_heg@web.de> - 2025-02-04 08:36 +0100
              Re: Division by zero Mikko <mikko.levanto@iki.fi> - 2025-02-04 11:13 +0200
                Re: Division by zero Maciej Wozniak <mlwozniak@wp.pl> - 2025-02-04 11:58 +0100
                Re: Division by zero Thomas Heger <ttt_heg@web.de> - 2025-02-05 09:32 +0100
  Re: Division by zero nospam@de-ster.demon.nl (J. J. Lodder) - 2025-02-01 23:28 +0100
    Re: Division by zero Ross Finlayson <ross.a.finlayson@gmail.com> - 2025-02-01 20:26 -0800
  Re: Division by zero film.art@gmail.com (JanPB) - 2025-02-20 21:45 +0000
    Re: Division by zero The Starmaker <starmaker@ix.netcom.com> - 2025-02-20 21:18 -0800

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