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User: "Pentcho Valev"
Date: 19 Aug 2005 06:01:19 AM
Object: Science in a Free Society
In his book "Science in a Free Society" P. Feyerabend states: "Today
science prevails not because of its comparative merits but because the
show has been rigged in its favour". Also, "the apostles of science
were the more determined conquerors" who "materially suppressed the
bearers of alternative cultures". Sounds realistic and yet the horror
story of George Orwell is much closer to the realities of the
situation:
"In the end the Party would announce that two and two made five, and
you would have to believe it. It was inevitable that they should make
that claim sooner or later: the logic of their position demanded it.
Not merely the validity of experience, but the very existence of
external reality, was tacitly denied by their philosophy. The heresy of
heresies was common sense. And what was terrifying was not that they
would kill you for thinking otherwise, but that they might be right.
For, after all, how do we know that two and two make four? Or that the
force of gravity works? Or that the past is unchangeable? If both the
past and the external world exist only in the mind, and if the mind
itself is controllable what then?"
Pentcho Valev
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User: "Josef Matz"

Title: Re: Science in a Free Society 22 Aug 2005 09:55:36 AM
"Pentcho Valev" <pvalev@yahoo.com> schrieb im Newsbeitrag
news:1124449279.270353.122980@g44g2000cwa.googlegroups.com...

In his book "Science in a Free Society" P. Feyerabend states: "Today
science prevails not because of its comparative merits but because the
show has been rigged in its favour". Also, "the apostles of science
were the more determined conquerors" who "materially suppressed the
bearers of alternative cultures". Sounds realistic and yet the horror
story of George Orwell is much closer to the realities of the
situation:


Yes it is not nice whats going on. From a system one for all we run straight
ahead into all againt one.
Is that the american copy ? How rich must the richest and mightiest become
to have enough ?

"In the end the Party would announce that two and two made five, and
you would have to believe it. It was inevitable that they should make
that claim sooner or later: the logic of their position demanded it.
Not merely the validity of experience, but the very existence of
external reality, was tacitly denied by their philosophy. The heresy of
heresies was common sense. And what was terrifying was not that they
would kill you for thinking otherwise, but that they might be right.
For, after all, how do we know that two and two make four? Or that the
force of gravity works? Or that the past is unchangeable? If both the
past and the external world exist only in the mind, and if the mind
itself is controllable what then?"

Wasnt that always ? Or do you think most men have gone to war because they
had fun ?
Of shure some of them had fun. But most of them just had no other choice.
Joe

Pentcho Valev

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User: "Denis Loubet"

Title: Re: Science in a Free Society 19 Aug 2005 12:52:32 PM
"Pentcho Valev" <pvalev@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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In his book "Science in a Free Society" P. Feyerabend states: "Today
science prevails not because of its comparative merits but because the
show has been rigged in its favour". Also, "the apostles of science
were the more determined conquerors" who "materially suppressed the
bearers of alternative cultures". Sounds realistic and yet the horror
story of George Orwell is much closer to the realities of the
situation:

"In the end the Party would announce that two and two made five, and
you would have to believe it. It was inevitable that they should make
that claim sooner or later: the logic of their position demanded it.
Not merely the validity of experience, but the very existence of
external reality, was tacitly denied by their philosophy. The heresy of
heresies was common sense. And what was terrifying was not that they
would kill you for thinking otherwise, but that they might be right.
For, after all, how do we know that two and two make four? Or that the
force of gravity works? Or that the past is unchangeable? If both the
past and the external world exist only in the mind, and if the mind
itself is controllable what then?"

The hypocrisy of using a computer and the internet to publish a luddite
screed is not lost on me.
--
Denis Loubet
dloubet@io.com
http://www.io.com/~dloubet
http://www.ashenempires.com
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User: ""

Title: Re: Science in a Free Society 19 Aug 2005 10:16:27 AM
Is "The Party" working on a starship capable of 150c?
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User: ""

Title: Re: Science in a Free Society 19 Aug 2005 01:18:40 PM
Pentcho Valev wrote:

In his book "Science in a Free Society" P. Feyerabend states:

I have not read this book, thus I am confined to responding to the few
(probably out-of-context) words you quote here.

"Today
science prevails not because of its comparative merits but because the
show has been rigged in its favour".

If this is an honest example of his mental capabilities, then I feel
justified in never having read anything by that man. The stated claim
consists of a false dichotomy, of course: if "the show has been
rigged", then the immediate next question would be "who rigged it" and
in particular "WHY was it rigged". If we assert nothing more than a
profit motive on the part of the rigger/s, we immediately conclude that
"the show has been rigged in science's favor BECAUSE of its relative
merits".
It doesn't, of course, require a lot of rigging to realize that a $50
gadget on your roof prevents lightning from burning down your house --
a feat that tens of thousands of years of prayer and sacrifices failed
to achieve.
(Others have already commented on the rest of your post)
cordially
Y.T.
--
Remove YourClothes before you email me.
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User: "Dirk Van de moortel"

Title: Re: Science in a Free Society 19 Aug 2005 01:55:43 PM
<ytyourclothes@p.zapto.org> wrote in message news:1124475520.637261.178610@f14g2000cwb.googlegroups.com...


Pentcho Valev wrote:

In his book "Science in a Free Society" P. Feyerabend states:



I have not read this book, thus I am confined to responding to the few
(probably out-of-context) words you quote here.

"Today
science prevails not because of its comparative merits but because the
show has been rigged in its favour".


If this is an honest example of his mental capabilities, then I feel
justified in never having read anything by that man.

This one has a small comment on this in section 2.14
http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/feyerabend/
Dirk Vdm

The stated claim
consists of a false dichotomy, of course: if "the show has been
rigged", then the immediate next question would be "who rigged it" and
in particular "WHY was it rigged". If we assert nothing more than a
profit motive on the part of the rigger/s, we immediately conclude that
"the show has been rigged in science's favor BECAUSE of its relative
merits".

It doesn't, of course, require a lot of rigging to realize that a $50
gadget on your roof prevents lightning from burning down your house --
a feat that tens of thousands of years of prayer and sacrifices failed
to achieve.

(Others have already commented on the rest of your post)


cordially


Y.T.

--
Remove YourClothes before you email me.

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User: "Ordog"

Title: Re: Science in a Free Society 19 Aug 2005 06:27:05 AM
Pentcho Valev wrote:

In his book "Science in a Free Society" P. Feyerabend states: "Today
science prevails not because of its comparative merits but because the
show has been rigged in its favour".

If he says so! I am always out for a good rigging providing it involves
logic and true interest in the Universe!

Also, "the apostles of science ....

I wonder who they might be? I mean, I know who the religious apostels
are and the televangelists and the hell and brimstone preachers. But
apostels of science???

...were the more determined conquerors" who "materially suppressed the
bearers of alternative cultures".

Scientists who suppress alternative cultures??? I am a little lost
here. So those hidious scientists form a culture and are threatening
which other culture???
Watch out for those terrorist scientist! What do they look like?

Sounds realistic and yet the horror
story of George Orwell is much closer to the realities of the
situation:

"In the end the Party would announce that two and two made five, and
you would have to believe it. It was inevitable that they should make
that claim sooner or later: the logic of their position demanded it.
Not merely the validity of experience, but the very existence of
external reality, was tacitly denied by their philosophy. The heresy of
heresies was common sense. And what was terrifying was not that they
would kill you for thinking otherwise, but that they might be right.
For, after all, how do we know that two and two make four? Or that the
force of gravity works? Or that the past is unchangeable? If both the
past and the external world exist only in the mind, and if the mind
itself is controllable what then?"

You do realise that this description fits perfectly most modern
religious groups.
Ordog
"Beware of the man whose God is in the skies." Bernard Shaw
PS: I wonder what Orwell would have thought about the 21st century USA?
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User: "Joseki"

Title: Re: Science in a Free Society 19 Aug 2005 06:42:43 AM
Ordog proudly stated:

Pentcho Valev wrote:

In his book "Science in a Free Society" P. Feyerabend states: "Today
science prevails not because of its comparative merits but because the
show has been rigged in its favour".

If he says so! I am always out for a good rigging providing it involves
logic and true interest in the Universe!

I usually like Feyerbend [simply because he nicely brings up the stink
everyone else doesn't claim to smell] so I wonder if this is out of
context. I wonder what fields science has been "rigged" to favor?
Supernatural explanations? Plato's ideals? The accountant or laywer's
view of natural history?
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User: "Dirk Van de moortel"

Title: Re: Science in a Free Society 19 Aug 2005 01:57:27 PM
"Joseki" <joseki.BX@gmail.com> wrote in message news:1124451763.720792.176880@g43g2000cwa.googlegroups.com...

Ordog proudly stated:

Pentcho Valev wrote:

In his book "Science in a Free Society" P. Feyerabend states: "Today
science prevails not because of its comparative merits but because the
show has been rigged in its favour".


If he says so! I am always out for a good rigging providing it involves
logic and true interest in the Universe!


I usually like Feyerbend [simply because he nicely brings up the stink
everyone else doesn't claim to smell] so I wonder if this is out of
context. I wonder what fields science has been "rigged" to favor?
Supernatural explanations? Plato's ideals? The accountant or laywer's
view of natural history?

Section 2.14 in
http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/feyerabend/
Dirk Vdm
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User: "Puppet_Sock"

Title: Re: Science in a Free Society 19 Aug 2005 08:50:26 AM
Pentcho Valev wrote:

In his book "Science in a Free Society" P. Feyerabend states: "Today
science prevails not because of its comparative merits but because the
show has been rigged in its favour".

[snip]
You know, I must not know the right people. Because I've been
a nuclear physicist for 15 years, and a science student for
10 years before that, and I've never been invited to one of
*those* parties where this rigging goes on.
It sounds like a hell of a lot of fun. If anybody *does* know
of such an event, I'd sure like an invite.
Socks
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User: "Dirk Van de moortel"

Title: Re: Science in a Free Society 20 Aug 2005 05:48:35 AM
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"Puppet_Sock" <puppet_sock@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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Pentcho Valev wrote:

In his book "Science in a Free Society" P. Feyerabend states: "Today
science prevails not because of its comparative merits but because the
show has been rigged in its favour".

[snip]

You know, I must not know the right people. Because I've been
a nuclear physicist for 15 years, and a science student for
10 years before that, and I've never been invited to one of
*those* parties where this rigging goes on.


Although not a scientist I too studied it at university and graduate school
and I was never invited nor knew of anyone who was. I was friends with some
scientists who worked at the CSIRO - they were never invited either. I have
been invited to parties by IT companies who obviously wanted to influence my
opinion, to all sorts of parties for all sorts of reasons, but never to one
rigging science.


It sounds like a hell of a lot of fun. If anybody *does* know
of such an event, I'd sure like an invite.
Socks


Well said.

Agreed :-)
Dirk Vdm
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User: "Hatunen"

Title: Re: Science in a Free Society 20 Aug 2005 03:09:58 PM
On Sat, 20 Aug 2005 10:48:35 GMT, "Dirk Van de moortel"
<dirkvandemoortel@ThankS-NO-SperM.hotmail.com> wrote:


"Bill Hobba" <rubbish@junk.com> wrote in message news:LZuNe.4850$FA3.1279@news-server.bigpond.net.au...


"Puppet_Sock" <puppet_sock@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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Pentcho Valev wrote:

In his book "Science in a Free Society" P. Feyerabend states: "Today
science prevails not because of its comparative merits but because the
show has been rigged in its favour".

[snip]

You know, I must not know the right people. Because I've been
a nuclear physicist for 15 years, and a science student for
10 years before that, and I've never been invited to one of
*those* parties where this rigging goes on.


Although not a scientist I too studied it at university and graduate school
and I was never invited nor knew of anyone who was. I was friends with some
scientists who worked at the CSIRO - they were never invited either. I have
been invited to parties by IT companies who obviously wanted to influence my
opinion, to all sorts of parties for all sorts of reasons, but never to one
rigging science.


It sounds like a hell of a lot of fun. If anybody *does* know
of such an event, I'd sure like an invite.
Socks


Well said.


Agreed :-)

Did I not get an invite becaue I didn't join Sigma Pi Sigma when
I was elected?
************* DAVE HATUNEN (hatunen@cox.net) *************
* Tucson Arizona, out where the cacti grow *
* My typos & mispellings are intentional copyright traps *
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User: "Dirk Van de moortel"

Title: Re: Science in a Free Society 20 Aug 2005 02:04:41 PM
"Hatunen" <hatuunen@cox.net> wrote in message news:cf3fg1p9m8sb57ruvmstl3guoosurhg2v5@4ax.com...

On Sat, 20 Aug 2005 10:48:35 GMT, "Dirk Van de moortel"
<dirkvandemoortel@ThankS-NO-SperM.hotmail.com> wrote:


"Bill Hobba" <rubbish@junk.com> wrote in message news:LZuNe.4850$FA3.1279@news-server.bigpond.net.au...


"Puppet_Sock" <puppet_sock@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:1124459426.159026.325240@o13g2000cwo.googlegroups.com...

Pentcho Valev wrote:

In his book "Science in a Free Society" P. Feyerabend states: "Today
science prevails not because of its comparative merits but because the
show has been rigged in its favour".

[snip]

You know, I must not know the right people. Because I've been
a nuclear physicist for 15 years, and a science student for
10 years before that, and I've never been invited to one of
*those* parties where this rigging goes on.


Although not a scientist I too studied it at university and graduate school
and I was never invited nor knew of anyone who was. I was friends with some
scientists who worked at the CSIRO - they were never invited either. I have
been invited to parties by IT companies who obviously wanted to influence my
opinion, to all sorts of parties for all sorts of reasons, but never to one
rigging science.


It sounds like a hell of a lot of fun. If anybody *does* know
of such an event, I'd sure like an invite.
Socks


Well said.


Agreed :-)


Did I not get an invite becaue I didn't join Sigma Pi Sigma when
I was elected?

Nah, you're confusing with
http://images.google.com/images?q=phi+zappa+crappa
Dirk Vdm
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User: ""

Title: Re: Science in a Free Society 19 Aug 2005 02:09:47 PM
science is one of the few fields where you can, if you have good ideas
get yourself published and become famous. A German patent clerk is a
good example of this. A. Einstein was rather looked down on by the
Junker establishment. He could not have done anything in politics. He
published a brilliant paper in 1905 which cleared up the Michaelson
Morley experiment, and another in 1915 which laid Leverrier's Vulcan to
rest and explained the orbit of Mercury.
These papers were read by scientists and jugded on their merits. Their
brilliance eventally led to a dazzling academic career. Every
prediction, with the exception of gravitational waves has been
experimentally verified.
That is not in any way due to the defects of the theory, it is due to
the defects of NASA and its ridiculous infatuation with the shuttle and
the space station. LISA will not be launced for a long time, but it is
certain to pick up gravitational waves when it is. Of course with
politics and manned space flight nobody will listen - the Junker
mentality.
Many scientific papers which are published are wrong. referees allow
publication when in doubt. Scientists themselves are expected to sort
out the wheat from the chaff.
.
User: ""

Title: Re: Science in a Free Society 22 Aug 2005 10:09:45 AM
Einstein in fact had feet of clay in a number of respects. "Gott
wuefelt nichts" was a famous quotation of his relating to Quantum
theory. In fact you get uyncertainty with chaos without even using the
Q word. "Aber das Scmetterling" - a butterfly in Japan can cause a
hurricane in the Gulf. The future, even classically, is a 4 dimensional
box of uncertainty. You see you have to measure more and more precisely
to make predictions. With the Q word there is, of course, an implicit
limit.
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User: ""

Title: Re: Science in a Free Society 22 Aug 2005 01:02:18 PM
I have had some further thoughts.Perhaps for Science to advance we need
feet of clay. Science can be cruel. In many ways it is a pity Leverrier
ended his career the way he did. He corresponded with Adams as a young
man and in 1846 Neptune was disconered. The search for Vulcan is very
much a footnote to General Relativity. I personally much prefer to
think of Neptune rather than the friutless hunt for Vulcan.
Yet the hunt was not totally fruitless, it was a vital ingredient of
GR.
In societies that are NOT free we get Science dictated by the ruler's
whim. The inheritance of acquired characteristcs (Lysenko) being a case
in point. Also unfree socities tend to channel their resources into big
macho prestige projects. Like a man on Mars. I think that LISA and the
Shuttle shows us the way NOT to allocate resources.
The astrnaut corps is basically faschistic. They want $40e9 (probably
more like $100e9 to go to Mars. Why should the rest of society be
forced to provide that level of resources.
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User: "Hatunen"

Title: Re: Science in a Free Society 19 Aug 2005 04:06:50 PM
On 19 Aug 2005 12:09:47 -0700,
wrote:

science is one of the few fields where you can, if you have good ideas
get yourself published and become famous. A German patent clerk is a
good example of this. A. Einstein was rather looked down on by the
Junker establishment. He could not have done anything in politics. He
published a brilliant paper in 1905 which cleared up the Michaelson
Morley experiment, and another in 1915 which laid Leverrier's Vulcan to
rest and explained the orbit of Mercury.

Einstein published three important papers in 1905: special
relativity, the Brownian movment (one of the last unsolveds of
classical mechanics) and the photoelectric effect, which
justified Plank's quantum and won Einstein the Nobel prize. In
cact, the photelectric effect paper might have been the most
important of the three.

These papers were read by scientists and jugded on their merits. Their
brilliance eventally led to a dazzling academic career. Every
prediction, with the exception of gravitational waves has been
experimentally verified.

That is not in any way due to the defects of the theory, it is due to
the defects of NASA and its ridiculous infatuation with the shuttle and
the space station. LISA will not be launced for a long time, but it is
certain to pick up gravitational waves when it is. Of course with
politics and manned space flight nobody will listen - the Junker
mentality.

You were doing pretyty well until you came upwith this bit of
nonsense. You reckon someone is going to make a gravitational
wave generator, do you?

Many scientific papers which are published are wrong. referees allow
publication when in doubt. Scientists themselves are expected to sort
out the wheat from the chaff.

And usually do.
************* DAVE HATUNEN (hatunen@cox.net) *************
* Tucson Arizona, out where the cacti grow *
* My typos & mispellings are intentional copyright traps *
.
User: "Androcles Androcles@ MyPlace.org"

Title: Re: Science in a Free Society 19 Aug 2005 04:07:36 PM
"Hatunen" <hatuunen@cox.net> wrote in message
news:18icg1dndopeljffkgl7fokfmkt38qia1i@4ax.com...
| On 19 Aug 2005 12:09:47 -0700,
wrote:
|
| >science is one of the few fields where you can, if you have good
ideas
| >get yourself published and become famous. A German patent clerk is a
| >good example of this. A. Einstein was rather looked down on by the
| >Junker establishment. He could not have done anything in politics. He
| >published a brilliant paper in 1905 which cleared up the Michaelson
| >Morley experiment, and another in 1915 which laid Leverrier's Vulcan
to
| >rest and explained the orbit of Mercury.
|
| Einstein published three important papers in 1905: special
| relativity, the Brownian movment (one of the last unsolveds of
| classical mechanics) and the photoelectric effect, which
| justified Plank's quantum and won Einstein the Nobel prize. In
| cact, the photelectric effect paper might have been the most
| important of the three.
|
| >These papers were read by scientists and jugded on their merits.
Their
| >brilliance eventally led to a dazzling academic career. Every
| >prediction, with the exception of gravitational waves has been
| >experimentally verified.
| >
| >That is not in any way due to the defects of the theory, it is due to
| >the defects of NASA and its ridiculous infatuation with the shuttle
and
| >the space station. LISA will not be launced for a long time, but it
is
| >certain to pick up gravitational waves when it is. Of course with
| >politics and manned space flight nobody will listen - the Junker
| >mentality.
|
| You were doing pretyty well until you came upwith this bit of
| nonsense. You reckon someone is going to make a gravitational
| wave generator, do you?
|
| >Many scientific papers which are published are wrong. referees allow
| >publication when in doubt. Scientists themselves are expected to sort
| >out the wheat from the chaff.
|
| And usually do.
Yeah... but not always, phuckwits are not mathematicians.
This is a copy/paste, don't take my comments personally, they were
intended for another.
On the court docket, Science v Einstein.
Prosecution opens:
Ladies and Gentlemen of the jury.
Reference: http://www.fourmilab.ch/etexts/einstein/specrel/www/
The first transformation we are given is the Galilean,
x' = x-vt
y = y
z = z
t = t
You have to agree with that, Einstein states:
"If we place x'=x-vt, it is clear that a point at rest in the system k
must have a system of values x', y, z, independent of time."
We have completed the transform from the stationary system, K, to the
moving system
which I'm going to name k' because Einstein doesn't give it a name.
You'll see why shortly.
For all x in K, x' in k', (x',y,z,t) = g(x,y,z,t).
You cannot possible disagree with that, you can only object to my choice
of name.
It is clear, so ist klar, in agreement with experience, and because
Einstein says so, a point at rest in system k' is independent of time.
We have now completed the transformation from K to k', the function g,
and can place K on the back burner.
You cannot possibly disagree with that. (I know of one dumb relativist
that does...he insists the system of coordinates k' doesn't exist. Such
is the mentality I deal with here.)
Now we come to Einstein's transformation.
Not Lorentz's, not Galileo's, but Einstein's.
For all x in k', xi in kappa, (xi, eta,zeta,tau) = cuckoo(x',y,z,t)
You can now begin disagreeing out of pure phuckwittery.
We have a transformation from the moving system k' to the
moving system kappa.
Einstein would have you believe that
tau = cuckoo_tau(g(x,y,z,t))
xi = cuckoo_xi(g(x,y,z,t))
is called the "Lorentz transformation".
I call it the cuckoo transformation, there is no relative motion between
k' and kappa, the time in k' has been found to be x'/(c-v) and x'/(c+v),
the only purpose to the function cuckoo_tau is to satisfy Einstein's
fraudulent whim,
"we establish by definition that the "time" required by light to travel
from A to B equals the "time" it requires to travel from B to A."
As Counsel for the Physicists, I rest my case.
As Counsel for the Mathematicians, we have yet to prove that cuckoo_tau
is not a linear function.
But I did that already, so I'll repeat it with additional comment for
the incompetent.
Here it is algebraically:
½[tau(0,0,0,t)+tau(0,0,0,t+x'/(c-v)+x'/(c+v))] = tau(x',0,0,t+x'/(c-v))
(given)
Doubling both sides:
tau(0,0,0,t)+tau(0,0,0,t+x'/(c-v)+x'/(c+v)) = 2 * tau(x',0,0,t+x'/(c-v))
Taking out the t for 3:00pm on a Friday afternoon:
tau(0,0,0,0)+tau(0,0,0,x'/(c-v)+x'/(c+v)) = 2 * tau(x',0,0,x'/(c-v))
Synchronize clocks at t = 0, tau(0,0,0,0) = 0, we remove tau(0,0,0,0)+
tau(0,0,0,x'/(c-v)+x'/(c+v)) = 2 * tau(x',0,0,x'/(c-v))
Taking coordinate x' as infinitessimally small, as Einstein says,
you not quite realizing x' is both a coordinate and a distance,
he does that to differentiate, so we leave the distance alone,
dx/dt = x/t anyway with a constant velocity.
But wait!
WHY is coordinate x' zero, other than the reason I'd given?
Very simple. There is no relative motion between k' and kappa,
the coordinate x' is independent of time. We do not have
xi = x'-ut or x' = x'+ut or any other function xi = fuckup(x')
for Lorentz's sake, there is no u, v, w or velocity between system k'
and system kappa. The time at zero is the same time at x', same at
xi; no translation between frames, this is the moving frame only, the
stationary frame K is simmering on the back burner.
Hence:
tau(0,0,0, x'/(c-v)+x'/(c+v)) = 2 * tau(0,0,0,x'/(c-v))
Removing the superfluous coordinates, all zero:
tau(x'/(c-v)+x'/(c+v)) = 2 * tau(x'/(c-v))
Setting the time a = x'/(c-v) and b =x'/(c+v) for clarity:
tau(a+b) = 2*tau(a)
Renaming tau as f,
f(a+b) = 2f(a) or
½f(a+b) = f(a)
Now tell me that's a linear function, a > b, we have
½f(1+0) = f(1)
"In the first place it is clear that the equations must be linear
on account of the properties of homogeneity which we attribute to
space and time." -- Albert Phuckwit/Huckster Einstein.
In the second place tau is not a linear function. -- Androcles.
In the third place there are no coordinates to transform.
In the fourth place you've been had! (and not by me either)
I ask the jury to convict Einstein on the charge of fraud.
Prosecution reserves the right to cross-examine the witnesses.
I now rest my case as a mathematician also.
Androcles whispers to his learned colleague, \YOU,
"I'd enter him an insanity plea if I were you, he's going down".
Counsel for the defence has the floor.
Androcles.
.
User: "Androcles Androcles@ MyPlace.org"

Title: Re: Science in a Free Society 20 Aug 2005 02:59:36 AM
"JanPB" <filmart@gmail.com> wrote in message
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(Snipping the rest).
Dirk Van de moortel wrote:

"JanPB" <filmart@gmail.com> wrote in message
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[snip]

This is simply insane. You know practically zero about the subject
and
yet you write... THIS?? Why even do you waste your time on this?


To make you waste yours.
It is called "to troll" ;-)

To me it's interesting - what are the limits of withstanding blatant
contradictions (infinite, apparently).
--
Jan Bielawski
I think I'll agree with both of you and join you in the holy cause.
I'll accept my car is shorter than my car, I can no longer withstand
blatant contradictions.
This is simply insane, goo gurgle Einstein gibber rant Lorentz fumble
padded cell mumble Einstein mumble Lorentz frame splodgit goo
inertial contraction gibber frame goo hole goo black spacetime
waffle...
Bright green flying elephants lay their eggs in black holes.
You know practically zero about the subject and yet you write... THIS??
Why even do you waste your time on this?
Androcles.
.
User: "Dirk Van de moortel"

Title: Re: Science in a Free Society 20 Aug 2005 05:50:11 AM
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"JanPB" <filmart@gmail.com> wrote in message
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(Snipping the rest).


Dirk Van de moortel wrote:

"JanPB" <filmart@gmail.com> wrote in message
news:1124262972.705745.122550@g47g2000cwa.googlegroups.com...

[snip]

This is simply insane. You know practically zero about the subject
and
yet you write... THIS?? Why even do you waste your time on this?


To make you waste yours.
It is called "to troll" ;-)


To me it's interesting - what are the limits of withstanding blatant
contradictions (infinite, apparently).

--
Jan Bielawski


I think I'll agree with both of you and join you in the holy cause.
I'll accept my car is shorter than my car, I can no longer withstand
blatant contradictions.
This is simply insane, goo gurgle Einstein gibber rant Lorentz fumble
padded cell mumble Einstein mumble Lorentz frame splodgit goo
inertial contraction gibber frame goo hole goo black spacetime
waffle...

Bright green flying elephants lay their eggs in black holes.

You know practically zero about the subject and yet you write... THIS??
Why even do you waste your time on this?

It is exactly what you want people to do. And they do it.
Unless you are dishonest, you don't have to ask why.
Dirk Vdm
.


User: "Androcles Androcles@ MyPlace.org"

Title: Re: Science in a Free Society 20 Aug 2005 04:36:36 AM
"JanPB" <filmart@gmail.com> wrote in message
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Androcles wrote:

On the court docket, Science v Einstein.

Oh dear. Not again :-)

Prosecution opens:
Ladies and Gentlemen of the jury.

Reference: http://www.fourmilab.ch/etexts/einstein/specrel/www/

The first transformation we are given is the Galilean,

x' = x-vt
y = y
z = z
t = t

You have to agree with that, Einstein states:

"If we place x'=x-vt, it is clear that a point at rest in the system k
must have a system of values x', y, z, independent of time."

We have completed the transform from the stationary system, K, to the
moving system
which I'm going to name k' because Einstein doesn't give it a name.
You'll see why shortly.

For all x in K, x' in k', (x',y,z,t) = g(x,y,z,t).

You cannot possible disagree with that, you can only object to my
choice
of name.

OK so far.
No, no no! How can you withstand such a blatant contradiction?

It is clear, so ist klar, in agreement with experience, and because
Einstein says so, a point at rest in system k' is independent of time.

Meaning: a point at rest in k' has its x' coordinate independent of t.
OK.
No, no no! How can you withstand such a blatant agreement?

We have now completed the transformation from K to k', the function g,
and can place K on the back burner.

You cannot possibly disagree with that. (I know of one dumb relativist
that does...he insists the system of coordinates k' doesn't exist.
Such
is the mentality I deal with here.)

OK, OK, fine. Just skip the attacks, they take too much space.
Since you don't understand this stuff, why don't you refrain from
posting on this thread? What's your point? Anything wrong with being
decent and honest? -Jan Bielawski
One might object to it on philosophical grounds but not on mathematical
ones (its mathematics is very easy, BTW, this is not where the
difficulty
with this paper lies, and this is not where you'll ever find anything
wrong). -- Jan Bielawski
I still can prove that Einstein's 1905 paper
has no mistakes in it. -- Jan Bielawski
Don't like having your nose rubbed in your own *****?
It's what we do to little peeing puppies that have milk teeth and can't
bark yet.
Oh dear, not again :-)

Now we come to Einstein's transformation.
Not Lorentz's, not Galileo's, but Einstein's.

For all x in k', xi in kappa, (xi, eta,zeta,tau) = cuckoo(x',y,z,t)

Never seen a "cuckoo" function before but OK otherwise.
I can't withstand such a blatant agreement.

You can now begin disagreeing out of pure phuckwittery.

No, out of your error. Details follow.
As I said, pure phuckwittery. Details follow.

We have a transformation from the moving system k' to the
moving system kappa.

Einstein would have you believe that

tau = cuckoo_tau(g(x,y,z,t))
xi = cuckoo_xi(g(x,y,z,t))

is called the "Lorentz transformation".

OK, fine.

I call it the cuckoo transformation, there is no relative motion
between
k' and kappa, the time in k' has been found to be x'/(c-v) and
x'/(c+v),
the only purpose to the function cuckoo_tau is to satisfy Einstein's
fraudulent whim,

Whatever.
I can't withstand such a blatant agreement. You must be wrong.

"we establish by definition that the "time" required by light to
travel
from A to B equals the "time" it requires to travel from B to A."

As Counsel for the Physicists, I rest my case.

As Counsel for the Mathematicians, we have yet to prove that
cuckoo_tau
is not a linear function.

But I did that already, so I'll repeat it with additional comment for
the incompetent.

Here it is algebraically:
½[tau(0,0,0,t)+tau(0,0,0,t+x'/(c-v)+x'/(c+v))] =
tau(x',0,0,t+x'/(c-v))
(given)

Doubling both sides:
tau(0,0,0,t)+tau(0,0,0,t+x'/(c-v)+x'/(c+v)) = 2 *
tau(x',0,0,t+x'/(c-v))

Taking out the t for 3:00pm on a Friday afternoon:

tau(0,0,0,0)+tau(0,0,0,x'/(c-v)+x'/(c+v)) = 2 * tau(x',0,0,x'/(c-v))

Synchronize clocks at t = 0, tau(0,0,0,0) = 0, we remove tau(0,0,0,0)+

tau(0,0,0,x'/(c-v)+x'/(c+v)) = 2 * tau(x',0,0,x'/(c-v))

OK so far.

Taking coordinate x' as infinitessimally small, as Einstein says,
you not quite realizing x' is both a coordinate and a distance,
he does that to differentiate, so we leave the distance alone,
dx/dt = x/t anyway with a constant velocity.

It's OK although I told you twice already how very simply to rewrite
this equation so that x' is ONLY a ccordinate, never a distance
(according to your terminology).
I'm glad you've told me three times now.
Since you don't understand this stuff, why don't you refrain from
posting on this thread? What's your point? Anything wrong with being
decent and honest? -Jan Bielawski

But wait!
WHY is coordinate x' zero, other than the reason I'd given?
Very simple. There is no relative motion between k' and kappa,

Right.
I can't withstand such a blatant contradiction. You must be right.

the coordinate x' is independent of time.

In other words, "objects at rest in kappa have x' coordinate
independent of t". OK.

We do not have
xi = x'-ut or x' = x'+ut or any other function xi = fuckup(x')
for Lorentz's sake, there is no u, v, w or velocity between system k'
and system kappa.

Here your first mistake creeps in.
k' and kappa use different sets of clocks
Really! My shorter car has a different clock to my car.
Gotcha, now I can see where I was insane. Thank you for curing
me of that insanity.
to define their times (k' uses t-clocks, kappa uses tau-clocks).
Yes, of course. I see it now.
This means kappa and k' - although at rest wrt one another - use
different length unit along the X axis.
Yes, I see it now. The kappa clock uses Greek marathons and the
k' clock uses Roman miles.
This means you cannot in principle rule out a relationship of the type:
xi = some_function(x', v)
where v is the relative velocity of K and k'.
Yes, of course. My desk is shorter than my desk when a bus goes by
outside because I have two different clocks on it. I see where my
mistake crept in.
It's true though that some_function does not depend on t, I grant you
this much :-)
Oh thank you so much! How very kind of you.
Be careful, though, if you give me a inch I might take a day.

The time at zero is the same time at x', same at xi;

You need to make this more precise.
Ah, I seeeeee......
Let's try a footnote to make it more precise and duck the issue:
"We shall not here discuss the inexactitude which lurks in the concept
of simultaneity of two events at approximately the same place, which can
only be removed by an abstraction."
Is that precise enough?
As I just said the clocks of kappa
and k' will read different things at, say, the place where the mirror
is situated or at the common origin of k' and kappa.
Yes, you did, didn't you?
And I ducked it with a footnote. My mistake crept in.
Phuckwittery is so much fun, isn't it?
You do realize your buddy moortel doesn't come up to the lofty
heights of an IQ of 10, in double figures, like yours?
Perhaps he's moving faster than you and had it Lorentz-contracted.
He still thinks I'm the troll, I don't want to disappoint him.
Sorry, I was adding a little curve to spacetime there.

no translation between frames, this is the moving frame only, the
stationary frame K is simmering on the back burner.

No movement between frames but there is still a non-identity
transformation between them.
Like this non-identity matrix?
[ 1 0 ]
[ 0 1 ]
I'll be sure to keep two clocks on my desk. I did notice that 30
centimetres and 12 inches on my ruler were not precisely the same
length, but I never realized it was because of special relativity.

Hence:

tau(0,0,0, x'/(c-v)+x'/(c+v)) = 2 * tau(0,0,0,x'/(c-v))

That's wrong, you can't reset x' to 0 in just one instance and not the
others.
Ah, I see. Ok, the time at zero is different to the time at x',
different
again at xi, even though x' is infinitessimally small and we shall not
discuss the inexactitude that the lurkers might perceive, and now I need
three clocks on my desk, one caesium, one balance-wheel and a cuckoo
clock with a pendulum because it's WRONG. Gotcha.
Moving to the origin of k' gives a different k'-time reading
there, hence potentially different tau-time reading there.
(Snipping the rest).
--
Jan Bielawski
Since you don't understand this stuff, why don't you refrain from
posting on this thread? What's your point? Anything wrong with being
decent and honest? -Jan Bielawski
This is simply insane. You know practically zero about the subject and
yet you write... THIS?? Why even do you waste your time on this? --Jan
Bielawski
One might object to it on philosophical grounds but not on mathematical
ones (its mathematics is very easy, BTW, this is not where the
difficulty
with this paper lies, and this is not where you'll ever find anything
wrong). -- Jan Bielawski
I still can prove that Einstein's 1905 paper
has no mistakes in it. -- Jan Bielawski
Start proving, phuckwit.
Androcles, rubbing the puppy's nose in its own *****.
.
User: "JanPB"

Title: Re: Science in a Free Society 20 Aug 2005 02:16:24 PM
Androcles wrote:

"JanPB" <filmart@gmail.com> wrote in message
news:1124494204.690107.43230@z14g2000cwz.googlegroups.com...
Androcles wrote:

On the court docket, Science v Einstein.


Oh dear. Not again :-)

(Quote attributions are slightly off again.)

Prosecution opens:
Ladies and Gentlemen of the jury.

Reference: http://www.fourmilab.ch/etexts/einstein/specrel/www/

The first transformation we are given is the Galilean,

x' =3D x-vt
y =3D y
z =3D z
t =3D t

Keep in mind this transformation, we'll come back to it.

You have to agree with that, Einstein states:

"If we place x'=3Dx-vt, it is clear that a point at rest in the system k
must have a system of values x', y, z, independent of time."

We have completed the transform from the stationary system, K, to the
moving system
which I'm going to name k' because Einstein doesn't give it a name.
You'll see why shortly.

For all x in K, x' in k', (x',y,z,t) =3D g(x,y,z,t).

You cannot possible disagree with that, you can only object to my
choice
of name.


OK so far.

No, no no! How can you withstand such a blatant contradiction?

It is clear, so ist klar, in agreement with experience, and because
Einstein says so, a point at rest in system k' is independent of time.


Meaning: a point at rest in k' has its x' coordinate independent of t.
OK.

No, no no! How can you withstand such a blatant agreement?

We have now completed the transformation from K to k', the function g,
and can place K on the back burner.

You cannot possibly disagree with that. (I know of one dumb relativist
that does...he insists the system of coordinates k' doesn't exist.
Such
is the mentality I deal with here.)


OK, OK, fine. Just skip the attacks, they take too much space.


Since you don't understand this stuff, why don't you refrain from
posting on this thread? What's your point? Anything wrong with being
decent and honest? -Jan Bielawski


One might object to it on philosophical grounds but not on mathematical
ones (its mathematics is very easy, BTW, this is not where the
difficulty
with this paper lies, and this is not where you'll ever find anything
wrong). -- Jan Bielawski


I still can prove that Einstein's 1905 paper
has no mistakes in it. -- Jan Bielawski

Don't like having your nose rubbed in your own *****?

I have no idea what you're talking about. I have never objected to
anything you wrote above, it's correct, always has been.

It's what we do to little peeing puppies that have milk teeth and can't
bark yet.
Oh dear, not again :-)

Now we come to Einstein's transformation.
Not Lorentz's, not Galileo's, but Einstein's.

For all x in k', xi in kappa, (xi, eta,zeta,tau) =3D cuckoo(x',y,z,t)


Never seen a "cuckoo" function before but OK otherwise.

I can't withstand such a blatant agreement.

:-)

You can now begin disagreeing out of pure phuckwittery.


No, out of your error. Details follow.

As I said, pure phuckwittery. Details follow.

We have a transformation from the moving system k' to the
moving system kappa.

Einstein would have you believe that

tau =3D cuckoo_tau(g(x,y,z,t))
xi =3D cuckoo_xi(g(x,y,z,t))

is called the "Lorentz transformation".


OK, fine.

I call it the cuckoo transformation, there is no relative motion
between
k' and kappa, the time in k' has been found to be x'/(c-v) and
x'/(c+v),
the only purpose to the function cuckoo_tau is to satisfy Einstein's
fraudulent whim,


Whatever.
I can't withstand such a blatant agreement. You must be wrong.

"we establish by definition that the "time" required by light to
travel
from A to B equals the "time" it requires to travel from B to A."

As Counsel for the Physicists, I rest my case.

As Counsel for the Mathematicians, we have yet to prove that
cuckoo_tau
is not a linear function.

But I did that already, so I'll repeat it with additional comment for
the incompetent.

Here it is algebraically:
=BD[tau(0,0,0,t)+tau(0,0,0,t+x'/(c-v)+x'/(c+v))] =3D
tau(x',0,0,t+x'/(c-v))
(given)

Doubling both sides:
tau(0,0,0,t)+tau(0,0,0,t+x'/(c-v)+x'/(c+v)) =3D 2 *
tau(x',0,0,t+x'/(c-v))

Taking out the t for 3:00pm on a Friday afternoon:

tau(0,0,0,0)+tau(0,0,0,x'/(c-v)+x'/(c+v)) =3D 2 * tau(x',0,0,x'/(c-v))

Synchronize clocks at t =3D 0, tau(0,0,0,0) =3D 0, we remove tau(0,0,0,=

0)+


tau(0,0,0,x'/(c-v)+x'/(c+v)) =3D 2 * tau(x',0,0,x'/(c-v))


OK so far.

Taking coordinate x' as infinitessimally small, as Einstein says,
you not quite realizing x' is both a coordinate and a distance,
he does that to differentiate, so we leave the distance alone,
dx/dt =3D x/t anyway with a constant velocity.


It's OK although I told you twice already how very simply to rewrite
this equation so that x' is ONLY a ccordinate, never a distance
(according to your terminology).


I'm glad you've told me three times now.
Since you don't understand this stuff, why don't you refrain from
posting on this thread? What's your point? Anything wrong with being
decent and honest? -Jan Bielawski

Well, never mind all that. Tell me where exactly in the following
equation is x' treated as distance:
tau(0,0,0,0)+tau(0,0,0,(x'-0)/(c-v)+(x'-0)/(c+v)) =3D 2 *
tau(x',0,0,(x'-0)/(c-v))
See? They are all coordinates now.


But wait!
WHY is coordinate x' zero, other than the reason I'd given?
Very simple. There is no relative motion between k' and kappa,


Right.

I can't withstand such a blatant contradiction. You must be right.


the coordinate x' is independent of time.


In other words, "objects at rest in kappa have x' coordinate
independent of t". OK.

We do not have
xi =3D x'-ut or x' =3D x'+ut or any other function xi =3D fuckup(x')
for Lorentz's sake, there is no u, v, w or velocity between system k'
and system kappa.


Here your first mistake creeps in.

k' and kappa use different sets of clocks

Really! My shorter car has a different clock to my car.
Gotcha, now I can see where I was insane. Thank you for curing
me of that insanity.

Well, you wrote it yourself, to quote:

x' =3D x-vt
y =3D y
z =3D z
t =3D t

..=2E.Look at the last equation. It says that k' and K (the stationary
system) use the same clocks. In other words, k' and kappa use
*different* clocks. Namely, kappa uses a set of clocks at rest in
kappa, synchronised in kappa. And k' uses a set of clocks *not* at rest
in k' (they are at rest in K), *not* synchronised in k' (they are
synchronised in K).

to define their times (k' uses t-clocks, kappa uses tau-clocks).

Yes, of course. I see it now.

This means kappa and k' - although at rest wrt one another - use
different length unit along the X axis.

Yes, I see it now. The kappa clock uses Greek marathons and the
k' clock uses Roman miles.

Something like that :-)

This means you cannot in principle rule out a relationship of the type:

xi =3D some_function(x', v)

where v is the relative velocity of K and k'.

Yes, of course. My desk is shorter than my desk when a bus goes by
outside because I have two different clocks on it. I see where my
mistake crept in.

No, you don't have two different clocks on it, you (the system k')
merely use someone else's (the system K) clocks for your measurements.
This offset is automatically factored into the "tau" equation provided
you don't ruin it by arbitrary resetting one of the variable values.

It's true though that some_function does not depend on t, I grant you
this much :-)

Oh thank you so much! How very kind of you.
Be careful, though, if you give me a inch I might take a day.

In units where c =3D 1, heh...

The time at zero is the same time at x', same at xi;


You need to make this more precise.


Ah, I seeeeee......
Let's try a footnote to make it more precise and duck the issue:
"We shall not here discuss the inexactitude which lurks in the concept
of simultaneity of two events at approximately the same place, which can
only be removed by an abstraction."
Is that precise enough?

No. It's just hand waving.

As I just said the clocks of kappa
and k' will read different things at, say, the place where the mirror
is situated or at the common origin of k' and kappa.

Yes, you did, didn't you?
And I ducked it with a footnote. My mistake crept in.
Phuckwittery is so much fun, isn't it?
You do realize your buddy moortel doesn't come up to the lofty
heights of an IQ of 10, in double figures, like yours?

I never had my IQ tested so I wouldn't know.

Perhaps he's moving faster than you and had it Lorentz-contracted.
He still thinks I'm the troll, I don't want to disappoint him.
Sorry, I was adding a little curve to spacetime there.


no translation between frames, this is the moving frame only, the
stationary frame K is simmering on the back burner.


No movement between frames but there is still a non-identity
transformation between them.

Like this non-identity matrix?
[ 1 0 ]
[ 0 1 ]

No, you have to compute this matrix by completing the derivation. It's
not a Lorentz-form transformation because one of the systems (k') is
using clocks which are not synchronised in it. The system k' is only an
auxiliary. Anyway, the transformation from k' to kappa is:
[ gamma 0 0 0 ]
[ 0 1 0 0 ]
[ 0 0 1 0 ]
[ gamma*v/c^2 0 0 1/gamma ]
(I'm using the coordinate order (x',y,z,t))
This transform is not needed for the derivation Einstein is after but
since you asked here it is. Point is, despite k' and kappa being at
rest wrt one another, it's not an identity matrix and you can see that
both the X coordinate and the time coordinate is different in both
systems, most importantly, the time in kappa changes as you change x' -
that's why you cannot reset x' to 0 in that one slot of the "tau"
equation.

I'll be sure to keep two clocks on my desk. I did notice that 30
centimetres and 12 inches on my ruler were not precisely the same
length, but I never realized it was because of special relativity.


Hence:

tau(0,0,0, x'/(c-v)+x'/(c+v)) =3D 2 * tau(0,0,0,x'/(c-v))


That's wrong, you can't reset x' to 0 in just one instance and not the
others.


Ah, I see. Ok, the time at zero is different to the time at x',

It is, because k' insists on using K's clocks which are not
synchronised according to him.

different
again at xi, even though x' is infinitessimally small and we shall not
discuss the inexactitude that the lurkers might perceive, and now I need
three clocks on my desk, one caesium, one balance-wheel and a cuckoo
clock with a pendulum because it's WRONG. Gotcha.

And the ring dial sun clock (there is one on my shelf).
--
Jan Bielawski
.
User: "Androcles Androcles@ MyPlace.org"

Title: Re: Science in a Free Society 20 Aug 2005 05:15:11 PM
"JanPB" <filmart@gmail.com> wrote in message
news:1124565384.139689.286340@g47g2000cwa.googlegroups.com...
Androcles wrote:

"JanPB" <filmart@gmail.com> wrote in message
news:1124494204.690107.43230@z14g2000cwz.googlegroups.com...
Androcles wrote:

On the court docket, Science v Einstein.


Oh dear. Not again :-)

(Quote attributions are slightly off again.)
It must be some HTML or other creeping in, I don't get it
with other posts.

Prosecution opens:
Ladies and Gentlemen of the jury.

Reference: http://www.fourmilab.ch/etexts/einstein/specrel/www/

The first transformation we are given is the Galilean,

x' = x-vt
y = y
z = z
t = t

Keep in mind this transformation, we'll come back to it.

You have to agree with that, Einstein states:

"If we place x'=x-vt, it is clear that a point at rest in the system
k
must have a system of values x', y, z, independent of time."

We have completed the transform from the stationary system, K, to
the
moving system
which I'm going to name k' because Einstein doesn't give it a name.
You'll see why shortly.

For all x in K, x' in k', (x',y,z,t) = g(x,y,z,t).

You cannot possible disagree with that, you can only object to my
choice
of name.


OK so far.

No, no no! How can you withstand such a blatant contradiction?

It is clear, so ist klar, in agreement with experience, and because
Einstein says so, a point at rest in system k' is independent of
time.


Meaning: a point at rest in k' has its x' coordinate independent of t.
OK.

No, no no! How can you withstand such a blatant agreement?

We have now completed the transformation from K to k', the function
g,
and can place K on the back burner.

You cannot possibly disagree with that. (I know of one dumb
relativist
that does...he insists the system of coordinates k' doesn't exist.
Such
is the mentality I deal with here.)


OK, OK, fine. Just skip the attacks, they take too much space.


Since you don't understand this stuff, why don't you refrain from
posting on this thread? What's your point? Anything wrong with being
decent and honest? -Jan Bielawski


One might object to it on philosophical grounds but not on
mathematical
ones (its mathematics is very easy, BTW, this is not where the
difficulty
with this paper lies, and this is not where you'll ever find anything
wrong). -- Jan Bielawski


I still can prove that Einstein's 1905 paper
has no mistakes in it. -- Jan Bielawski

Don't like having your nose rubbed in your own *****?

I have no idea what you're talking about. I have never objected to
anything you wrote above, it's correct, always has been.

It's what we do to little peeing puppies that have milk teeth and
can't
bark yet.
Oh dear, not again :-)

Now we come to Einstein's transformation.
Not Lorentz's, not Galileo's, but Einstein's.

For all x in k', xi in kappa, (xi, eta,zeta,tau) = cuckoo(x',y,z,t)


Never seen a "cuckoo" function before but OK otherwise.

I can't withstand such a blatant agreement.

:-)

You can now begin disagreeing out of pure phuckwittery.


No, out of your error. Details follow.

As I said, pure phuckwittery. Details follow.

We have a transformation from the moving system k' to the
moving system kappa.

Einstein would have you believe that

tau = cuckoo_tau(g(x,y,z,t))
xi = cuckoo_xi(g(x,y,z,t))

is called the "Lorentz transformation".


OK, fine.

I call it the cuckoo transformation, there is no relative motion
between
k' and kappa, the time in k' has been found to be x'/(c-v) and
x'/(c+v),
the only purpose to the function cuckoo_tau is to satisfy Einstein's
fraudulent whim,


Whatever.
I can't withstand such a blatant agreement. You must be wrong.

"we establish by definition that the "time" required by light to
travel
from A to B equals the "time" it requires to travel from B to A."

As Counsel for the Physicists, I rest my case.

As Counsel for the Mathematicians, we have yet to prove that
cuckoo_tau
is not a linear function.

But I did that already, so I'll repeat it with additional comment
for
the incompetent.

Here it is algebraically:
½[tau(0,0,0,t)+tau(0,0,0,t+x'/(c-v)+x'/(c+v))] =
tau(x',0,0,t+x'/(c-v))
(given)

Doubling both sides:
tau(0,0,0,t)+tau(0,0,0,t+x'/(c-v)+x'/(c+v)) = 2 *
tau(x',0,0,t+x'/(c-v))

Taking out the t for 3:00pm on a Friday afternoon:

tau(0,0,0,0)+tau(0,0,0,x'/(c-v)+x'/(c+v)) = 2 * tau(x',0,0,x'/(c-v))

Synchronize clocks at t = 0, tau(0,0,0,0) = 0, we remove
tau(0,0,0,0)+

tau(0,0,0,x'/(c-v)+x'/(c+v)) = 2 * tau(x',0,0,x'/(c-v))


OK so far.

Taking coordinate x' as infinitessimally small, as Einstein says,
you not quite realizing x' is both a coordinate and a distance,
he does that to differentiate, so we leave the distance alone,
dx/dt = x/t anyway with a constant velocity.


It's OK although I told you twice already how very simply to rewrite
this equation so that x' is ONLY a ccordinate, never a distance
(according to your terminology).


I'm glad you've told me three times now.
Since you don't understand this stuff, why don't you refrain from
posting on this thread? What's your point? Anything wrong with being
decent and honest? -Jan Bielawski

Well, never mind all that. Tell me where exactly in the following
equation is x' treated as distance:
tau(0,0,0,0)+tau(0,0,0,(x'-0)/(c-v)+(x'-0)/(c+v)) = 2 *
tau(x',0,0,(x'-0)/(c-v))
See? They are all coordinates now.
Exactly this.
"If we place x'=x-vt, it is clear that a point at rest in the system k
must have a
system of values x', y, z, independent of time."
Einstein is saying there is no function f such that x' = f(t).
That's what independent of time means.
Hence there can be no inverse function t = f^-1 (x').
tau(0,0,0,t) does not exist.
I'll allow tau(t). Now it must be proven.


But wait!
WHY is coordinate x' zero, other than the reason I'd given?
Very simple. There is no relative motion between k' and kappa,


Right.

I can't withstand such a blatant contradiction. You must be right.


the coordinate x' is independent of time.


In other words, "objects at rest in kappa have x' coordinate
independent of t". OK.

We do not have
xi = x'-ut or x' = x'+ut or any other function xi = fuckup(x')
for Lorentz's sake, there is no u, v, w or velocity between system
k'
and system kappa.


Here your first mistake creeps in.

k' and kappa use different sets of clocks

Really! My shorter car has a different clock to my car.
Gotcha, now I can see where I was insane. Thank you for curing
me of that insanity.

Well, you wrote it yourself, to quote:

x' = x-vt
y = y
z = z
t = t

....Look at the last equation. It says that k' and K (the stationary
system) use the same clocks.
No it doesn't. It says that the time measured by the moving clock
is identical to the time measured by the stationary clock,
"in agreement with experience", "it is clear", "it is at once apparent".
K is on the back burner, and so is it's clock.
..
It also says rulers do not change length when you move them.
But, if you want to be picky-picky,
xi = x-vt
eta = y
zeta = z
tau = t
I thought that might be confusing.
In other words, k' and kappa use
*different* clocks. Namely, kappa uses a set of clocks at rest in
kappa, synchronised in kappa. And k' uses a set of clocks *not* at rest
in k'
Oh yes they are at rest in k', and x' is independent of them, being
independent of time.
(they are at rest in K), *not* synchronised in k' (they are
synchronised in K).
Yes they are synchronized in k', and remain synchronized,
"in agreement with experience", "it is clear", "it is at once apparent".

to define their times (k' uses t-clocks, kappa uses tau-clocks).

Yes, of course. I see it now.

This means kappa and k' - although at rest wrt one another - use
different length unit along the X axis.

Yes, I see it now. The kappa clock uses Greek marathons and the
k' clock uses Roman miles.

Something like that :-)

This means you cannot in principle rule out a relationship of the
type:

xi = some_function(x', v)

where v is the relative velocity of K and k'.

Yes, of course. My desk is shorter than my desk when a bus goes by
outside because I have two different clocks on it. I see where my
mistake crept in.

No, you don't have two different clocks on it, you (the system k')
merely use someone else's (the system K) clocks for your measurements.
No I don't, I synchronized my wristwatch with a new battery
installation,
my computer is linked via the internet to the system K.
They remain synchronized - or would if my wristwatch were perfect.
Anyway, we shall not here discuss the inexactitude which lurks in the
concept of simultaneity of two events at approximately the same place,
which can only be removed by an abstraction.
This offset is automatically factored into the "tau" equation provided
you don't ruin it by arbitrary resetting one of the variable values.

It's true though that some_function does not depend on t, I grant you
this much :-)

Oh thank you so much! How very kind of you.
Be careful, though, if you give me a inch I might take a day.

In units where c = 1, heh...
I use units where c = 5, v = 3.
I use a train that is 32 units long on a track that is 80 units,
so that 80 = 5 * 16 and 80 = 3*16 +32.
I reflect the light at 80 K (32 k') and it meets the end of the
train at 60 K (0 k') so that (80-60)/5 = 4 seconds and
(32-0)/(3+5) = 4 also, and (32-0)/(5-3) = 16.
Then I add 8 more cars to the train, apply the cuckoo definition
and make the light-time 8 each way.
Now the longer train, 40, divided by 8 gives me 5, the speed of
light on the train, same as the track.
The trouble is I can't make it fit with "The observable phenomenon
here depends only on the relative motion of the conductor and the
magnet, whereas the customary view draws a sharp distinction
between the two cases in which either the one or the other of these
bodies is in motion. "
I don't take the customary view, you see. The track is moving, the
speed of light is 5 on the train, so now I have to stretch the track
beyond 80 to 80*gamma = 100, then recycle.
Of course I send my train right around the xmas tree, bouncing the
light back and forth between the caboose and engine until it's grown
big enough to sell to British Rail and carry passengers. The steel
rails I sell for scrap. I've been thinking of buying gold rails...
I got the idea from Sagnac, where the customary view is that
the turntable rotates. Not taking the customary view, I make the
observer run around the turntable. Thn the speed of light is
c+v, c-v for him and c on the "stationary" turntable. the trouble
is, his watch isn't slowing down like it should, he's seeing
a beat frequency, it is clear, in agreement with experience.

The time at zero is the same time at x', same at xi;


You need to make this more precise.


Ah, I seeeeee......
Let's try a footnote to make it more precise and duck the issue:
"We shall not here discuss the inexactitude which lurks in the concept
of simultaneity of two events at approximately the same place, which
can
only be removed by an abstraction."
Is that precise enough?

No. It's just hand waving.
Yes, I rather thought SR was just hand-waving *****.

As I just said the clocks of kappa
and k' will read different things at, say, the place where the mirror
is situated or at the common origin of k' and kappa.

Yes, you did, didn't you?
And I ducked it with a footnote. My mistake crept in.
Phuckwittery is so much fun, isn't it?
You do realize your buddy moortel doesn't come up to the lofty
heights of an IQ of 10, in double figures, like yours?

I never had my IQ tested so I wouldn't know.
Don't bother, its mostly about what you can remember anyway.

Perhaps he's moving faster than you and had it Lorentz-contracted.
He still thinks I'm the troll, I don't want to disappoint him.
Sorry, I was adding a little curve to spacetime there.


no translation between frames, this is the moving frame only, the
stationary frame K is simmering on the back burner.


No movement between frames but there is still a non-identity
transformation between them.

Like this non-identity matrix?
[ 1 0 ]
[ 0 1 ]

No, you have to compute this matrix by completing the derivation. It's
not a Lorentz-form transformation because one of the systems (k') is
using clocks which are not synchronised in it. The system k' is only an
auxiliary. Anyway, the transformation from k' to kappa is:
[ gamma 0 0 0 ]
[ 0 1 0 0 ]
[ 0 0 1 0 ]
[ gamma*v/c^2 0 0 1/gamma ]
(I'm using the coordinate order (x',y,z,t))
How pretty! And just what is v between k' and kappa?
This transform is not needed for the derivation Einstein is after but
since you asked here it is. Point is, despite k' and kappa being at
rest wrt one another, it's not an identity matrix and you can see that
both the X coordinate and the time coordinate is different in both
systems, most importantly, the time in kappa changes as you change x' -
that's why you cannot reset x' to 0 in that one slot of the "tau"
equation.

I'll be sure to keep two clocks on my desk. I did notice that 30
centimetres and 12 inches on my ruler were not precisely the same
length, but I never realized it was because of special relativity.


Hence:

tau(0,0,0, x'/(c-v)+x'/(c+v)) = 2 * tau(0,0,0,x'/(c-v))


That's wrong, you can't reset x' to 0 in just one instance and not the
others.


Ah, I see. Ok, the time at zero is different to the time at x',

It is, because k' insists on using K's clocks which are not
synchronised according to him.
I'll buy k' a watch for Christmas, I want to grow more trains.
Ya gotta invest to make money.
You wouldn't have any gold rails, would you?

different
again at xi, even though x' is infinitessimally small and we shall not
discuss the inexactitude that the lurkers might perceive, and now I
need
three clocks on my desk, one caesium, one balance-wheel and a cuckoo
clock with a pendulum because it's WRONG. Gotcha.

And the ring dial sun clock (there is one on my shelf).
Mine's bigger than yours!
http://www.amherst.edu/~ermace/sth/birdseye.jpeg
Androcles
--
Jan Bielawski
.




User: ""

Title: Re: Science in a Free Society 20 Aug 2005 11:28:37 AM
You were doing pretyty well until you came upwith this bit of
nonsense. You reckon someone is going to make a gravitational
wave generator, do you?
No LISA the gravitational wave detector. It has been sheduled by NASA
but gooness knows when it wil go up. LISA like all scientific
experiments requires an ultra stable platform. Manned space flight can
never provide this.
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