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Re: EINSTEIN'S SCIENCE: NOT EVEN INSANE

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   Translation -- Trying to understand relativity is driving Pentcho
   insane. You shouldn't feel bad, Pentcho, as many students have
   difficulty understanding of time in special relativity: simultaneity
   and reference frames.

   Pentcho--See:
 > http://arxiv.org/pdf/physics/0207109.pdf?origin=publication_detail

 > This article reports on an investigation of student understanding of
 > the concept of time in special relativity. A series of research tasks
 > are discussed that illustrate, step-by-step, how student reasoning of
 > fundamental concepts of relativity was probed. The results indicate
 > that after standard instruction students at all academic levels have
 > serious difficulties with the relativity of simultaneity and with the
 > role of observers in inertial reference frames. Evidence is presented
 > that suggests many students construct a conceptual framework in which
 > the ideas of absolute simultaneity and the relativity of simultaneity
 > harmoniously co-exist.


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EINSTEIN'S SCIENCE: NOT EVEN INSANE Pentcho Valev <pvalev@yahoo.com> - 2015-08-30 04:56 -0700
  Re: EINSTEIN'S SCIENCE: NOT EVEN INSANE Pentcho Valev <pvalev@yahoo.com> - 2015-08-30 09:53 -0700
    Re: EINSTEIN'S SCIENCE: NOT EVEN INSANE Pentcho Valev <pvalev@yahoo.com> - 2015-08-30 12:31 -0700
      Re: EINSTEIN'S SCIENCE: NOT EVEN INSANE Odd Bodkin <bodkinodd@gmail.com> - 2015-08-31 10:08 -0500
        Re: EINSTEIN'S SCIENCE: NOT EVEN INSANE Odd Bodkin <bodkinodd@gmail.com> - 2015-08-31 10:19 -0500
        Re: EINSTEIN'S SCIENCE: NOT EVEN INSANE benj <nobody@gmail.com> - 2015-09-01 00:35 -0400
  Re: EINSTEIN'S SCIENCE: NOT EVEN INSANE Sam Wormley <swormley1@gmail.com> - 2015-08-30 21:01 -0500
    Re: EINSTEIN'S SCIENCE: NOT EVEN INSANE "hanson" <hanson@quick.net> - 2015-08-30 23:47 -0700
  Re: EINSTEIN'S SCIENCE: NOT EVEN INSANE Pentcho Valev <pvalev@yahoo.com> - 2015-08-31 06:55 -0700

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