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Re: does length contraction apply to light?

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kenseto <setoken@att.net> writes:

>This is false..... IRT says that

Nobody cares what IRT says.  IRT is a complete and total failure.

>IRT says that the light-path length of a moving meter stick is predicted
>to be foreshortened by a factor of 1/gamma or expanded by a factor of
>gamma.

And especially nobody cares about a theory that says someone predicts
something (in the passive voice, no less).  A real theory will say what 
will actually happen.

I say that the local fortune teller will predict that her next customer
will have an awesome love life.  Who cares.  It means nothing.  If I can
state factually that a particular person will actually have an awesome
love life, I will really be onto something.

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does length contraction apply to light? RichD <r_delaney2001@yahoo.com> - 2016-10-03 15:23 -0700
  Re: does length contraction apply to light? dlzc <dlzc1@cox.net> - 2016-10-03 15:53 -0700
    Re: does length contraction apply to light? RichD <r_delaney2001@yahoo.com> - 2016-10-04 11:52 -0700
      Re: does length contraction apply to light? Alan Folmsbee <omnilobe@gmail.com> - 2016-10-04 12:21 -0700
      Re: does length contraction apply to light? alsor@interia.pl - 2016-10-04 12:28 -0700
      Re: does length contraction apply to light? dlzc <dlzc1@cox.net> - 2016-10-04 17:16 -0700
  Re: does length contraction apply to light? alsor@interia.pl - 2016-10-04 06:15 -0700
  Re: does length contraction apply to light? chemguy <doulting@shaw.ca> - 2016-10-04 12:59 -0700
    Re: does length contraction apply to light? Poutnik <poutnik4nntp@gmail.com> - 2016-10-04 22:23 +0200
  Re: does length contraction apply to light? kenseto <setoken@att.net> - 2016-10-04 13:27 -0700
  Re: does length contraction apply to light? Tom Roberts <tjroberts137@sbcglobal.net> - 2016-10-06 12:41 -0500
    Re: does length contraction apply to light? kenseto <setoken@att.net> - 2016-10-06 13:52 -0700
      Re: does length contraction apply to light? "David (Time Lord) Fuller" <fuller.david@hotmail.com> - 2016-10-06 14:47 -0700
      Re: does length contraction apply to light? moroney@world.std.spaamtrap.com (Michael Moroney) - 2016-10-07 02:43 +0000
        Re: does length contraction apply to light? kenseto <setoken@att.net> - 2016-10-07 04:39 -0700
  does length contraction apply to light? "David (Time Lord) Fuller" <fuller.david@hotmail.com> - 2016-10-06 12:59 -0700

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