Path: csiph.com!feeder.erje.net!2.us.feeder.erje.net!nntp.club.cc.cmu.edu!micro-heart-of-gold.mit.edu!newsswitch.lcs.mit.edu!nntp.TheWorld.com!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: moroney@world.std.spaamtrap.com (Michael Moroney) Newsgroups: sci.physics.relativity Subject: Re: Relativity of Simultaneity (RoS) is a bogus concept of physics Date: Mon, 18 Jul 2016 03:14:50 +0000 (UTC) Organization: The World : www.TheWorld.com : Since 1989 Lines: 33 Message-ID: References: <830ba67c-65ca-4831-b93b-6408ddaeb7e7@googlegroups.com> <98bc4eaf-5569-4738-9978-89e5cb80c403@googlegroups.com> <8cc679d5-4f47-404a-912f-32b6a3eec4a8@googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: shell01.theworld.com X-Trace: pcls7.std.com 1468811690 13664 192.74.137.71 (18 Jul 2016 03:14:50 GMT) X-Complaints-To: abuse@TheWorld.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 18 Jul 2016 03:14:50 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: nn/6.6.5 Xref: csiph.com sci.physics.relativity:387937 Gary Harnagel writes: >On Saturday, July 16, 2016 at 10:45:20 PM UTC-6, HGW. wrote: >> >> On 17/07/16 12:54, Michael Moroney wrote: >> > >> > > > 'at its fastest, travel at c.' >> > > >> > > c, relative to what? >> > >> > Relative to anything you want, Ralph. That's the whole point of the >> > invariance of c. >> > >> > > The rod caused to spin from its mid point....not that this matters. >> > > When any transients have settled down, >> > >> > Transients, Ralph? Without "transients" no information can be communicated >> > by the spinning of the rod, so it is unnecessary. >> > >> > > Of course a perfectly rigid rod would not have any such >> > > transients. >> > >> > No such thing as a "perfectly rigid rod" as that would require infinite >> > communication speed. Consider a rigid rod 1 light second in length, >> > perfectly stationary and not rotating. At T=0 I start rotating one end. >> > When does an observer at the far end notice the rod is rotating? >> >> Hey Moron-y, forget your religion and learn some basic physics will yu.... >This response means that Ralphie-boy doesn't want to answer the question >that destroys his fake physics :-) Yup, just like idiot Ken, all Ralph can do when cornered is insult away...