Einstein set up x' = x-vt, the transformation from the moving frame to the stationary frame but Einstein OMITTED -x' = -x+vt for the return journey. Sagnac is isomorphic to Einstein's thought experiment, but Einstein BLUNDERED the simple algebra at schoolboy level, right here: http://www.fourmilab.ch/etexts/einstein/specrel/www/figures/img22.gif He claimed the return distance is x-vt with time t = (x-vt)/(c+v) when it is in fact t = (vt-x)/(c+v). From this BLUNDER he calculated the cuckoo malformations that he blamed on Lorentz and called "transformations". The rigorous solution is NOT difficult. |
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