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Re: The overpass

From Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de>
Newsgroups sci.physics.relativity
Subject Re: The overpass
Date 2017-08-13 21:45 +0200
Organization PointedEars Software (PES)
Message-ID <1913119.irdbgypaU6@PointedEars.de> (permalink)
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Thomas 'Ingrid' Lahn wrote:

> Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn wrote:
>> Tom Roberts wrote:
>>> It is only for spacelike-separated events that their order is frame
>>> dependent. There are no such events here.
>> The moving ends of the trains are space-like separated events, so is the
>> distance between the front end of a train and C and the distance between
>> the rear end of a train and C.
> 
> This was badly worded.  I meant to say: The moving ends of the trains – A
> and B, and M and N – and C are *all* spacelike-separated events.

Finally,

“The ends of the moving trains – A and B, and M and N, respectively – and C 
are *all* spacelike-separated events.”

should remove all ambiguity :)
  
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The overpass LuigiFortunati <fortunati.luigi@gmail.com> - 2017-08-13 09:51 +0200
  Re: The overpass Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2017-08-13 15:53 +0200
    Re: The overpass Luigi Fortunati <fortunati.luigi@gmail.com> - 2017-08-13 19:13 +0200
      Re: The overpass The Starmaker <starmaker@ix.netcom.com> - 2017-08-13 11:02 -0700
  Re: The overpass Tom Roberts <tjroberts137@sbcglobal.net> - 2017-08-13 09:06 -0500
    Re: The overpass Luigi Fortunati <fortunati.luigi@gmail.com> - 2017-08-13 19:07 +0200
    Re: The overpass Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2017-08-13 19:40 +0200
      Re: The overpass Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2017-08-13 21:32 +0200
        Re: The overpass Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2017-08-13 21:45 +0200
          Re: The overpass Prudence Oppenheimer <phow@innfldo.sp> - 2017-08-13 21:32 +0000
            Re: The overpass Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2017-08-14 00:34 +0200
      Re: The overpass Tom Roberts <tjroberts137@sbcglobal.net> - 2017-08-13 23:03 -0500
        Re: The overpass Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2017-08-14 15:52 +0200
          Re: The overpass Tom Roberts <tjroberts137@sbcglobal.net> - 2017-08-14 15:21 -0500
            Re: The overpass Tom Roberts <tjroberts137@sbcglobal.net> - 2017-08-14 16:43 -0500
    Re: The overpass "Ross A. Finlayson" <ross.finlayson@gmail.com> - 2017-08-13 17:14 -0700
      Re: The overpass Tom Roberts <tjroberts137@sbcglobal.net> - 2017-08-13 23:04 -0500
        Re: The overpass "Ross A. Finlayson" <ross.finlayson@gmail.com> - 2017-08-14 19:55 -0700

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