Is The Theory of Relativity Fatally Flawed?

Is Relativity Shown Fatally Flawed?

  • Yes

    Votes: 16 26.2%
  • Mostly Convienced

    Votes: 2 3.3%
  • No Opinion

    Votes: 1 1.6%
  • Mostly UnConvienced

    Votes: 7 11.5%
  • No

    Votes: 35 57.4%

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JamesR maybe the worlds garndeners may find offense in your comparing incompetance or levels of skill required. To say that I ride on MacM's shirt tail is a sad inditement of your own competancy to make such or any comments about a persons abilities.

For the record I don't believe I have yet agreed to anything that MacM has proposed adn so I take it you are just stressed out an acting irrationally. [for which I might add you are forgiven]

I have as requested stated an opinion just as you have, my opinion may not be as informed as yours but it is still my opinion.

And the funny thing is that you have not actually addressed any of the issues I raized in the depth required but have reverted to slander and ridicule by association to some how prove your point.

the issue of proving light has velocity....as ridiculous as it sounds is a valid question from a person wanting to get the facts right.

Is it an issue worth exploring? Does light have velocity? It is encumbent upon relativity to prove all it's premises and not just slide on the subject.

Show me proof that a photon actually travels and I'll stop looking for that proof...circumstantial evidence is not good enough....sorry
 
Persol said:
jamesR did... your response amount to "No, I'm right... wah... really.... I'm right. You're wrong... wah"
You start with the assumption that time is absolute. This is not a 'fact'. Don't pretend like it is.
Funny that after all this time you still have been unable to demonstrate this alleged failure.
I agree completely.

We can only note that you are on the list of those that cannot properly address the issue. Your only defense is a childish offense display of unsupported claims of superiority..
 
Persol said:
Please get a dictionary... or a law book... either will do.

You really have shown your ass here.

WEBSTER: UNWARRANTED is the opposite of being WARRANTED.

WARRANT: (1b) justification or reasonable grounds for some act, course, statement or belief


FELONIOUS: (1) Wicked, base.

BASE: (1) Having or showing little or no honor,courage, or decancy; mean, ignoble,contemptible.

Let me suggest instead of wasting your time trying to be cute that you learn a bit about physics reality and try to answer the issue.
 
geistkiesel:

James R is a pompous, boorish ass and amateur propagandist.

Again with the personal attacks? It is clear that you don't have any arguments which will stand up to scrutiny, so this is what you descend to.

Not to worry James R, MacDonald's is hiring , and they train you too!.

I liked the response of the other person you directed this comment to, so I will borrow it from him.

I don't think you'd want me as your boss.
 
QQ:

JamesR maybe the worlds garndeners may find offense in your comparing incompetance or levels of skill required.

Gardeners are very good at gardening. Physicists are very good at physics. See the point, now?

And the funny thing is that you have not actually addressed any of the issues I raized in the depth required but have reverted to slander and ridicule by association to some how prove your point.

On the contrary, I asked you to justify your claims, but you have completely ignored my request.

the issue of proving light has velocity....as ridiculous as it sounds is a valid question from a person wanting to get the facts right.

Is it an issue worth exploring? Does light have velocity? It is encumbent upon relativity to prove all it's premises and not just slide on the subject.

I already explained this to you. Have you forgotten? Here is the explanation again:

The velocity of an X is the distance d that the X travels, divided by the time t taken to travel the distance. Thus v=d/t.

This is the definition of velocity. If X is a tennis ball or a photon it makes no difference. If it travels, it has a velocity. Go to the light switch and switch the light on. Does light travel from the light to your desk? If so, then light has a velocity. If not, then you can't see anything. The fact that you aren't blind means light has a velocity.

Case closed.
 
MacM:

Your repeated comparisons of QQ to MacM is both unwarranted and feloneous.

Why? Do you disagree with QQ?

Your efforts to state my views as simplistic do nothing to answer the questions I have raised.

Correct. I have answered the questions separately.

Yours is nothing more than an egotistical dodge of the issue. Claiming a superiority while in fact you cannot even address the issue forthrightly, relying instead in the habit of recitations of SRT as it's own proof.

I have never attempted to prove SR. In fact, I have explicitly stated that it can't be done. And no other scientific theory can be proved either. Evidence is what counts, and the evidence in favour of relativity is overwhelming.

One would think such highly skilled professional would be able to properly address the questions of us poor confused and inept souls. LOL.

It's not my fault that you can't understand explanations. You have to make an effort, I'm afraid, and it seems to be too much for you.

And you should try to answer the unrebutted issue.

There is no unrebutted issue.

What I posted is in complete agreement with the claims of Relativity.

I have patiently pointed out your many errors.
 
James R said:
MacM:

Why? Do you disagree with QQ?

IF I agree or disagree is moot. It is your unwarranted effort to use my name in vane that is at issue here. You most certainly have not justified taking that position. The suggestion that I am like a Creationist infers things totally contradictory to the facts here.

Correct. I have answered the questions separately.

False. You have merely recited SRT as fact and have completely failed to address the issue. You cannot hide behind SRT and ignore the fact that SRT has the clock accumulate lesser time because it traveled less distance and then claim that the clock tick rate changed. I did not.

The two cannot be made coexist in the same calculation. IF one is calculated. i.e - length contraction, then the other becomes illusionary not a real affect. The clock displayed 4.35 hours after traveling 3.93 lHr at 0.9c.

t = 3.93/.9 = 4.35.

To then claim that from the others view the clock MUST have dilated is to make the view illusionary since no actual affect on the clocks tick rate has occured.

The accumulated time is due to the shorter distance. The perception of time dilation can occur but it is not a real affect. It is a false perception, an illusion.

I have never attempted to prove SR. In fact, I have explicitly stated that it can't be done. And no other scientific theory can be proved either. Evidence is what counts, and the evidence in favour of relativity is overwhelming.

You have repeated this position several times. Each time you do so, you ignore the indisputable fact that the clock tick rate cannot have changed in the above scenario. That is in disagreement with your view that time dilation is a real physical process.

Sticking your head in the sand and reciting SRT doesn't make that disparity go away.

It's not my fault that you can't understand explanations. You have to make an effort, I'm afraid, and it seems to be too much for you.

I frankly think at this juncture you have shown that I seem to think more clearly than yourself on this issue. I have stated the facts. Now either properly address them or admit:

1 - Relativity (as presented being real) is false, or

2 - Admit you have no answer and

3 - Stop trying to use innuendo and slander offensively as your defense.

There is no unrebutted issue.

Only if you are so niave as to believe that to recite SRT is the answer. This is a very simple and pragmatic issue. One does not (and cannot) hide behind verbage and claim superiority.

I have patiently pointed out your many errors.

As pointed out you have not. You only make claim to having done so by side stepping and ignoring the obvious flaw in your position ,citing theory which doesn't resolve anything, and by making derogatory remarks about personalities.

Now explain to us how when 4.35 hours have accumulated on the display of a clock which has gone 3.92 LHr at 0.9c, that the clock tick rate is anything but unity.

And explain to us that when another observer views that clock and sees that dispay and disagrees with the time and claims that the clock therefore has dilated time, that this is not a physical reality but is an illusion of motion.
 
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MacM:

The suggestion that I am like a Creationist infers things totally contradictory to the facts here.

Young-Earth Creationists argue that evolution is false based on their faith that the God exists and the Earth is only 6000 years old. They provide no actual evidence for either claim, and in fact there is a wealth of evidence which is in direct conflict with the second claim.

You argue that relativity is false based on your faith that universal time exists. You provide no evidence for that claim, and in fact there is a wealth of evidence which is in direct conflict with you claim.

You do the math. Fair comparison? I think so.

You have merely recited SRT as fact and have completely failed to address the issue. You cannot hide behind SRT and ignore the fact that SRT has the clock accumulate lesser time because it traveled less distance and then claim that the clock tick rate changed. I did not.

I gave you the SR answer. I have hidden nothing. Everything is out in the open. If you had anything to dispute my answer then you would have presented it by now. But you don't.

To then claim that from the others view the clock MUST have dilated is to make the view illusionary since no actual affect on the clocks tick rate has occured.

At the end of the test, clock A reads 10 hours and clock B reads 4.35 hours. They both agree on all events which occurred. They agree that both clocks started ticking at the end of the acceleration phase, as specified. They agree on the final readings, when the clocks are brought together. There is an actual discrepancy in the readings when they are brought back together. That is no illusion.

I've told you in detail how relativity accounts for the discrepancy, but you have not given your alternative explanation. So, since you never come forward with your alternative, let me ask you directly.

1. Do the clocks have the same reading, or different readings when they are brought back together?
2. Can you justify your answer to (1)? Please show the mathematics.

I've already shown you that your claims about what relativity says are false, so there's no need to continue that argument. We have established what relativity has to say about the matter. The only remaining thing to do is to compare what relativity says to what your brilliant theory says. So far, we have nothing from you, and full detail from relativity.

You have repeated this position several times. Each time you do so, you ignore the indisputable fact that the clock tick rate cannot have changed in the above scenario. That is in disagreement with your view that time dilation is a real physical process.

There is no inconsistency in my views. Moreover, the "indisputable fact" that you refer to here is precisely the matter which is the centre of our dispute.

All we have here is a FIAT declaration from you about so-called "indisputable facts" which, in fact, are very much disputed.

One does not (and cannot) hide behind verbage and claim superiority.

Then stop doing it.

Now explain to us how when 4.35 hours have accumulated on the display of a clock which has gone 3.92 LHr at 0.9c, that the clock tick rate is anything but unity.

What's to explain. A person co-moving with a clock never sees the clock rate change. The number's you quote here refer to B's distance and B's time, and are calculated in a frame co-moving with B's clock. Therefore, there is no time dilation of B's clock in this frame. (There is, however, time dilation of A's clock.)

And explain to us that when another observer views that clock and sees that dispay and disagrees with the time and claims that the clock therefore has dilated time, that this is not a physical reality but is an illusion of motion.

This is your incorrect idea, not mine. It's up to you to explain it.
 
JamesR, I woudl like to ask you a simple question:

How can you expect a person of reasonable intelligence to agree with a theorythat relies on a mathematical model that places an object at 'c' in a eternal, everywhere dimension.

The math that you use to do the time dilations and length contraction suggest that if 'c' is attained the universe disappears into 2 dimensions. Now you don't even have to stay at 'c' for more than a millisecond of earth time and everything turns into 2 dimensions for our object.

Now we are talking about relativistic velocitys 0.8 or more and well aren't we getting close to that 2 dimensional state that I believe a photon is anyway.....


so tell me how can we accept the math at slower velocities if it doesn't stack up at the maximum speeds?
 
James R said:
Young-Earth Creationists argue that evolution is false based on their faith that the God exists and the Earth is only 6000 years old. They provide no actual evidence for either claim, and in fact there is a wealth of evidence which is in direct conflict with the second claim.

You argue that relativity is false based on your faith that universal time exists. You provide no evidence for that claim, and in fact there is a wealth of evidence which is in direct conflict with you claim.

False. I base my view on facts. Facts which you choose to ignore. t = d/v is not faith it is mathematics.

You do the math. Fair comparison? I think so.

That shows further failure of your mental processes. To think an opinion based on shown mathematical relationships is noting but unsupported faith is ludricrus slander.

I gave you the SR answer. I have hidden nothing. Everything is out in the open. If you had anything to dispute my answer then you would have presented it by now. But you don't.

WHAT. Are you deaf also? You must be blind to not see that you wrote that "A" SEES B's time as dilated and to then argue that it is physical reality when "SEES" is a perception on top of having shown that mathematically t = d/v leaves NO room for a dilated clock tick rate.

You are simply being hard headed and refusing to admit that time dilation is therefore illusion and not physical.

At the end of the test, clock A reads 10 hours and clock B reads 4.35 hours. They both agree on all events which occurred. They agree that both clocks started ticking at the end of the acceleration phase, as specified. They agree on the final readings, when the clocks are brought together. There is an actual discrepancy in the readings when they are brought back together. That is no illusion.

Correct but the descrepancy is not a dilated tick rate of the slow clock. It is accumulated time at a normal tick rate and a shorter distance traveled at the same relative velocity.

I've told you in detail how relativity accounts for the discrepancy, but you have not given your alternative explanation. So, since you never come forward with your alternative, let me ask you directly.

Only as many times as you have made the unsupportable arguement that A's view is physical change in B's tick rate.

1. Do the clocks have the same reading, or different readings when they are brought back together?

Different: 10 hours and 4.35 hours.

2. Can you justify your answer to (1)? Please show the mathematics.

Already have numerous times. 3.92 LHr/0.9c = 4.35 hours. 9 LHr/0.9c = 10 hours. Both times are a function of clocks having a common tick rate but traveling different distances at the same relative velocity.

I've already shown you that your claims about what relativity says are false,

Flase. You have shown no such thing. Just the opposite. It has been shown that I was absolutely correct and that you simply refuse to acknowledge the simple truth.

so there's no need to continue that argument. We have established what relativity has to say about the matter.

And we have established that what Relativity says is false.

The only remaining thing to do is to compare what relativity says to what your brilliant theory says. So far, we have nothing from you, and full detail from relativity.

Your continued effort to ignore the mathematics does not make them go away. Please explian how a clock that goes 3.92 LHr in 4.35 hours at a velocity of 0.9c has a tick rate other than unity.

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There is no inconsistency in my views. Moreover, the "indisputable fact" that you refer to here is precisely the matter which is the centre of our dispute.

It is indisputable. You have yet to refute it. You simply attempt to sweep it under the rug and ignore it. It will not go away, so now address it.

How does a clock that accumulates 4.35 hours time having gone 3.92 LHr at 0.9c have a tick rate other than unity?

All we have here is a FIAT declaration from you about so-called "indisputable facts" which, in fact, are very much disputed.

Your definition of dispute does not fit the dictionary definition of dispute. You cite SRT and ignore the issue. That is not a dispute. It is entrenchment, blind faith and fiat.

Then stop doing it.

Surely you know you look foolish here.

What's to explain. A person co-moving with a clock never sees the clock rate change. The number's you quote here refer to B's distance and B's time, and are calculated in a frame co-moving with B's clock. Therefore, there is no time dilation of B's clock in this frame. (There is, however, time dilation of A's clock.)

No there is not. There is only an illusion of motion in the jperception of B'sa clock. A's view did not alter B's clock. A's view that B's clock dilated is just that a false view created by the fact that A does not see the distance that B traveled correctly.

This is your incorrect idea, not mine. It's up to you to explain it.

I have and you have not addressed it. You have failed. Your view of reality and claims of relativity are false.

My view is solid mathematically and logically. In your view you refer to frames of referance and views and don't even realize that "View" means perception. I have never said "A" doesn't have that view or jperception I simply point out that A's VIEW does not alter B's tick rte. B's tick rate is physical. A's view is perception of B's tick rte distorted by a failure to see the correct bases of that dispaly which was shorter distance.

In one frame you claim the cause as length contraction and a constant tick rate and in the other frame you claim fixed (false distance) and the cause as dilated tick rate. You are mixing physical reality and causes with no basis for having done so.

Your declartion that both are physical realities is nonsense and is unsupported period. Yours is the fiat which runs counter to the evidence, even of Relativity.
 
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Quantum Quack said:
So in essence you are saying what I have been suggesting. That light indeed does not have velocity but the effect is distance determined?

If one thinks of teh separation as being zero between source and reflector and note that 'c' is derived by the rate of change in the reflector only and not time in the distance from source then the whole difficulty with SR disappears.
The delay between emission and detection of a light signal is clearly distance related, but only as far as the distance at the moment of emission is concerned, i.e. the delay is independent of relative velocity and any subsequent motion of both.
If you replace the light signal by material particles, then the delay with which the latter would reach the detector would depend on the relative velocity of emitter and detector (according to the usual vectorial addition of velocities). However, as experiments show, this velocity dependence does not apply for light, which means that you run into problems if you try to describe the propagation of light by the usual notions of 'velocity' or 'speed'. Einstein thought he could solve this problem by first using the usual concept of 'speed' nevertheless, and then redefining his original length and time units because otherwise his 'speed' of light would not be invariant anymore in different reference frames. It did not occur to him that for light a different definition for 'speed' has to be used where the travel time of the light signal depends only on the distance between emitter and observer at the moment of emission, but not in any way on their relative motion.

By the way, apart from my page http://www.physicsmyths.org.uk/lightspeed.htm where I discussed this issue in more detail, I have shown on my page http://www.physicsmyths.org.uk/photons.htm why the particle picture of light is erroneous for other reasons. This also invalidates the common idea of light consisting of particles flying through space just like any other particles (and being therefore subject to the usual velocity dependences).
As indicated above, it is best to think of light propagation just as an emission followed by a detection with a delay that depends merely on the distance at the time of emission, but not as something that travels independently through space and eventually hits the detector.
 
tismid,

I am having a bit of trouble visualizing just how you claim that this is based on the distance at the time of emmission.

IF there is relative velocity then that distance is changing during the propagation between transmission and reception?
 
MacM said:
tismid,
I am having a bit of trouble visualizing just how you claim that this is based on the distance at the time of emmission.
IF there is relative velocity then that distance is changing during the propagation between transmission and reception?
No, the distance at the time emission does obviously not change. If the light is emitted at time t=0, then it is the distance *at that moment* which determines the travel time, whatever the change of distance thereafter is.
 
tsmid said:
No, the distance at the time emission does obviously not change. If the light is emitted at time t=0, then it is the distance *at that moment* which determines the travel time, whatever the change of distance thereafter is.

I gathered that is what you meant but I guess I am looking for your explanation mechanically or physically how that ocurrs.
 
James R,

In the following response you gave in another thread you seem to be in complete agreement with my assertion that both length contraction and time dilation are not applied simultaneously. Each has the same mathematical affect and it really does not matter which you assert as long as you don't try to assert both in the same case.

[post=608323]Your veracity is in question[/post]

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..........plus length contraction (or time dilation, depending on how you want to look at the problem).
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Why do you persist at changing your claims to suit your arguement.?

This position clearly states that to claim time dilation is an arbitrary choice vs claiming that distance has contracted. Real physics are not arbitrary. They would occur if you chose to calculate them or not.

Since you are choosing what you want to claim real as being different at different times, you are making neither one real or both illusionary.

Is it that you can't decide which is real and don't want to give up either that you try to claim both are real?

Without question a clock that accumulates less time during a trip which is shorter but has a constant or common tick rate is entirely a different matter than claiming that a clock has altered or dilated time.

These are wholly seperate physical principles and switching from one definition to the other as being reality is shear fraud and la la land physics.

Relative motion is relative motion and I find it curious as to why you would have "A" see time dilated and not see distance contracted but have "B" see distance contracted but not time dilated. Each hold the view that they are at rest and it is the other that is in motion.

What is your basis for treating the two observers differently? If both see the same distance (being under identical circumstances) then there simply is no basis to claim time dilation at all.

Any spatial objects at rest with "A" become in motion when viewd by "B". Any object at rest to "B" become viewed as in motion when viewed by "A".

There is no special frame and no justification for your duplicitious treatment of the clocks.

Either both see distance contracted between them and no time dilation or both see time dilation and no length contraction, since the parameters of relative motion are identical.

Which is real physics with real affects and which is an arbitrary illusion created by redefining parameters? Real is real and cannot be arbitrarily turned on and off.

That is the origin of the physical problem at issue. That is to claim a clock ticks at two or more rates based on an observers view. You create the problem, it doesn't exist in reality.
 
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MacM:

I asked you some questions, and you answered as follows:

1. Do the clocks have the same reading, or different readings when they are brought back together?

Different: 10 hours and 4.35 hours.

2. Can you justify your answer to (1)? Please show the mathematics.

Already have numerous times. 3.92 LHr/0.9c = 4.35 hours. 9 LHr/0.9c = 10 hours. Both times are a function of clocks having a common tick rate but traveling different distances at the same relative velocity.

Then, a little further down, you say:

And we have established that what Relativity says is false.

You own explanation, given above, relies on the reality of length contraction, which is an effect of Relativity. Therefore, you are trying to prove relativity false by first assuming it is true. You error, as has been explained, is that when you assume it is true for the purpose of your disproof you take only part of it, and ignore other parts. That is simply dishonest. You can't pick and choose which parts of the theory to use. It's all or nothing.

All you have proven by advocating part but not the whole is that your bastardised version of relativity with time dilation taken out is not viable.

Your refer to a response of mine from another thread:

..........plus length contraction (or time dilation, depending on how you want to look at the problem).

You have left out the context, of course, but it doesn't really matter. Note that I said "depending on how you want to look at the problem". What I meant by that is "depending on which frame of reference you want to work in".

This is perfectly consistent with everything else I've said.

This position clearly states that to claim time dilation is an arbitrary choice vs claiming that distance has contracted.

Not arbitrary. Frame dependent. There's a separate thread you can look at to educate yourself about reference frames. I suggest you take a look.

Is it that you can't decide which is real and don't want to give up either that you try to claim both are real?

Both are real.

Without question a clock that accumulates less time during a trip which is shorter but has a constant or common tick rate is entirely a different matter than claiming that a clock has altered or dilated time.

Not if you're referring to two different views of the same trip, which is the situation here.

Relative motion is relative motion and I find it curious as to why you would have "A" see time dilated and not see distance contracted but have "B" see distance contracted but not time dilated. Each hold the view that they are at rest and it is the other that is in motion.

This is telling indeed.

Even after two years of discussions, you haven't managed to grasp the most basic concepts about reference frames.

Go and get a book on special relativity and read it. Please.
 
QQ:

JamesR, I woudl like to ask you a simple question:

How can you expect a person of reasonable intelligence to agree with a theorythat relies on a mathematical model that places an object at 'c' in a eternal, everywhere dimension.

A reasonable person weighs up evidence for and against a claim, and judges it accordingly. Despite the fact that relativity is counter-intuitive, all the available evidence supports it to the tiniest detail.

so tell me how can we accept the math at slower velocities if it doesn't stack up at the maximum speeds?

The same math applies at all speeds.

In fact, though, the Lorentz tranformations have a mathematical singularity at v=c, so we can't use them to tranform into the reference frame of a photon. This is why it is not totally correct to say things like "an object moving at the speed of light would be contracted to zero length and its time would stop". That conclusion comes from extrapolating the theory into a region where it does not technically apply. Therefore, any such conclusions must be treated with some suspicion.

(MacM won't understand this response. Watch him leap on this post and claim some new "disproof" of relativity based on the new fact he has just learnt.)
 
The same math applies at all speeds.

In fact, though, the Lorentz tranformations have a mathematical singularity at v=c, so we can't use them to tranform into the reference frame of a photon.

ok....so you can not transform into the frame of a photon?
Can I ask why not?

Also you state that the math applies to all speeds and this would include 'c' I would assume. After all is not the transforms all about 'c' and the invariance of 'c'?

the problem that I am trying to figure out is probably more a political one.

In that from my limited understanding of the transforms I see a situation that exists that when an object is mathematically deemed as travelling at 'c' it and the universe disappears into a state of either 2 or zero dimensions.

The object observer will lookout of his space ship and see what? Nothing?

The other aspect is that the object can not travel at 'c' as there is effectively no where to go and most imortantly this happens as soon as v=c is achieved. So what happens to the reat of the universe as our object approaches and achieves 'c'.....hmmmmm.......the object must disappear from our ability to percieve it.

So in a way the faster the object travels the slower it goes until eventually it is stopped as it's velocity becomes zero when it achieves 'c'.


So to my limited view point this indicates that the transform process is fundementally paradoxed....in that we are attempting to apply the transforms to real objects when the result would be impossible....

And on that basis alone this brings the transforms and it's comceptualisation into a state of precarious credibility.

The transforms work with time and distance but in a real universe time is ongoing yet our object is heading for a timeless zero dimensional universe and I see this as a significant conflict that the transforms need to accomodate somehow.

So the question I ask is how can we accept the results of a transform that produces these sorts of predictions......?

I might add in a ironical sort of way the transforms prove my point about light not having velocity but is given velocity by a stationary observer.

This will I think help in the understanding I am seeking about the fundemantals of gravity , light , and Magnetic forces regards spacetime.

Even though the transforms have a problem in my view they are very helpful all the same.
 
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(MacM won't understand this response. Watch him leap on this post and claim some new "disproof" of relativity based on the new fact he has just learnt.)

Where I think SR is flawed is that it relies on a mathematical model that losses it's credibility at extremes. It is little wonder that people will jump up an down about these and other issues.

Conceptually the transforms whilst shown as you say in manny ways to be true and evidenced also show that it is possible they have the wrong end of the stick so to speak. Like pretending you are your reflection in a mirror instead of being the person creating the reflection....everything makes sense until you shut your eyes.....and realise that you are on the wrong side of the glass. This meaning that SR is possible quite a sound theory but that it is being applied form the wrong perspective.
This is for me hard to explain and essentially a gut feeling.

If we assume a photon perpective distance is irrelevant but from ours it is very relevant. So we have an absolute frame of time in our photon and an relative frame of time(s) in our mass.
And most importantly the transforms prove this.
 
James R said:
I asked you some questions, and you answered as follows:

“ 1. Do the clocks have the same reading, or different readings when they are brought back together?

Different: 10 hours and 4.35 hours.

2. Can you justify your answer to (1)? Please show the mathematics.

Already have numerous times. 3.92 LHr/0.9c = 4.35 hours. 9 LHr/0.9c = 10 hours. Both times are a function of clocks having a common tick rate but traveling different distances at the same relative velocity. ”


Then, a little further down, you say:

“ And we have established that what Relativity says is false. ”


You own explanation, given above, relies on the reality of length contraction, which is an effect of Relativity. Therefore, you are trying to prove relativity false by first assuming it is true. You error, as has been explained, is that when you assume it is true for the purpose of your disproof you take only part of it, and ignore other parts. That is simply dishonest. You can't pick and choose which parts of the theory to use. It's all or nothing.

No dishonest is to continue to redefine the frames view and make claim in one frame that distance contracted and then in the other frame make claim that time tick rate has dilated.

The relative velocity in each case is identical. In each case the view is frm a frame at rest. It is blatantly dihonest to therefore treat the two frames differently. You create the problem. It does not exist in real physics.

Saying the problem is that I do not understand refereanc frames is an outright sham.

TELL US ON WHAT BASIS YOU JUSTIFY TREATING EACH FRAME DIFFERENTLY.

All you have proven by advocating part but not the whole is that your bastardised version of relativity with time dilation taken out is not viable.[/qluote]

JUSTIFY BASTARDIZING PHYSICAL REALITY BY TREATING TWO IDENTICAL FRAMES DIFFERENTLY. Claiming that I use only part of the theory is simply to acknowledge that I refuse to apply duplicitious tactics to an identical physical circumstance. Of course you can create all sorts of wierd affects if you claim in one instance distance contracted but in the identical situation you claim time dilated.

This is not an either or choice. If it is real then it exists and you do not have an arbitrary choice of which affect you choose to claim.

Your refer to a response of mine from another thread:

“ ..........plus length contraction (or time dilation, depending on how you want to look at the problem).


You have left out the context, of course, but it doesn't really matter. Note that I said "depending on how you want to look at the problem".

Just how did I leave it out of context when I posted the link to your comments and even quoted the very same verbage you claim I left out of context? You seem desperate to complain about something.

What I meant by that is "depending on which frame of reference you want to work in".

This is perfectly consistent with everything else I've said.

I don't see where I have said it is not consistant. It is in fact the very jproblem and issue raised here. You find it perfectly OK to change realities of identical situations by claiming, as a matter jof choice, which reality you want to claim.

It is 3rd grade level reasoning to not understand that you will create such an affect by first applying different statndards to identical situations. You simply cannot justify claiming some affect is physically real in one case but in the next case simply ignore it. What happened it is no longer real since you choose to ignore it? LOL.

“ This position clearly states that to claim time dilation is an arbitrary choice vs claiming that distance has contracted. ”


Not arbitrary. Frame dependent.

False. This is a thin veiled coverup. The frames have identical foundations and facts. There is no basis to treat each frame differently. If length contraction is real and it occurs in one frame, i.e. - Clock "B", then it must occur in the other frame Clock "A". If it does you time dilation and differential distance traveld vanishes.

THAT IS CALLED RECIPROCITY. Your failure is to not understand reciprocity and the fact, stated or not in SRT, it is physical and must be applied. It is your failure to apply reciprocity to your physics which generates these false illusions.

There's a separate thread you can look at to educate yourself about reference frames. I suggest you take a look.[/qluote]

Let me suggest that this issue, and this thread, and this post, suggest it is not I that should do some studying.

“ Is it that you can't decide which is real and don't want to give up either that you try to claim both are real? ”

Both are real.

Fiat, and also outright unjustified bullshit. You have been exposed. Please don't continue to make false assertions and be self-rightous.

“ Without question a clock that accumulates less time during a trip which is shorter but has a constant or common tick rate is entirely a different matter than claiming that a clock has altered or dilated time. ”

Not if you're referring to two different views of the same trip, which is the situation here.

The two view do not required two different sets of physics. They req

“ Relative motion is relative motion and I find it curious as to why you would have "A" see time dilated and not see distance contracted but have "B" see distance contracted but not time dilated. Each hold the view that they are at rest and it is the other that is in motion. ”


This is telling indeed.

Even after two years of discussions, you haven't managed to grasp the most basic concepts about reference frames.

Go and get a book on special relativity and read it. Please.
 
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