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From: moroney@world.std.spaamtrap.com (Michael Moroney)
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Subject: Re: What Do Dingleberries Actually Mean When They Claim Moving Clocks Run Slow?
Date: Wed, 6 Sep 2017 16:46:19 +0000 (UTC)
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kenseto <setoken@att.net> writes:

>On Tuesday, September 5, 2017 at 5:10:31 PM UTC-4, Odd Bodkin wrote:

>> >> Ken, as Einstein discussed that gedanken, he NEVER SAID that the
>> >> observers were at rest relative to the events. Not once. That's because
>> >> you cannot be at rest relative to the events.
>> >
>> > Fucking idiot the train observer is at rest with respect to the positions
>> > of the event (the ends of the train).
>>
>> Ken, I will ask you to re-read the gedanken. Notice that Einstein says
>> that the events are the lightning strikes, not the ends of the train.

>He said that lightning strikes at the ends of the train (that means the 
>positions of the events) at the moment when M and M' are coincided. If
>not there is no way to determine if the strikes were happened at equal
>distance from M or M'.

No, Ken, Einstein said the lightning struck the train ends and the platform
simultaneously.  Think of the lightning bolts as leaping between the train
ends and platform if it helps.