"PD" <TheDraperFamily@gmail.com> wrote in message 
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| Sorcerer wrote:
| > "PD" <TheDraperFamily@gmail.com> wrote in message
| > news:1155818345.685626.152330@74g2000cwt.googlegroups.com...
| > |
| > | Sorcerer wrote:
| > | > "PD" <TheDraperFamily@gmail.com> wrote in message
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| > | > |
| > | > | Sorcerer wrote:
| > | > | > My definition of a crank is someone that unthinkingly accepts
| > | > | > such garbage as the "Lorentz" cuckoo transformations without
| > | > | > examining thoroughly their derivation. PD is a crank.
| > | > | > Androcles
| > | > |
| > | > | Yes, I know what your idea of a crank is.
| > | > | Unfortunately, "examining thoroughly their derivation" means to you
| > | > | ONLY looking at the original paper and the particular choice of words
| > | > | in that paper,
| > | >
| > | > I don't care about words, the equations are what matter. You can prattle
| > | > on about words until the cows come home because you are a crank.
| > | > FORTUNATELY, I'm not a crank.
| > |
| > | Then do describe, using equations only and not words (because they
| > | don't matter), the difference between x' and xi in Einstein's 1905
| > | paper On the Electrodynamics of Moving Bodies.
| >
| > x' = x-vt
| > xi = x'/sqrt(1-v^2/c^2)
| > xi-x' =  xi[1- 1/sqrt(1-v^2/c^2)]
| > x'-xi = -xi[1- 1/sqrt(1-v^2/c^2)]
| > Androcles
|
| I knew you couldn't do four lines of algebra without making a mistake.

You don't know anything. Show the mistake, doofus.
You asked for the difference, I gave you the difference.
I knew you couldn't find a mistake, crank, and you never will.
Androcles

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How the nail on which you hang your math diploma holds together with
all that rust, I'll never know.

OK, so you can't describe it -- this you've established -- neither in
words (which you don't care about) nor in equations (which you can't
manipulate with any reliability). It appears you're not in any position
to be considering the Lorentz cuckoo transforms and "examining
thoroughly their derivation", nor lecturing anyone else about whether
they have unthinkingly accepted them. That is because -- this you've
established -- you are a crank.

PD

[ followup: http://groups.google.com/group/sci.physics/msg/7e1795bb068c2a7e ]

| You can't even check your work to find a mistake when it's pointed out
| to you?
| I'll give you a hint. It's somewhere in those four lines of algebra
| upstairs.
| I'll give you another hint. A 9th grader could find it.

Lying shit. You can't find it because it isn't there. You are a troll,
and a stupid one at that.
Androcles

 See also

https://home.deds.nl/~dvdm/dirk/Physics/Fumbles/ImDrunk.html