>>>> [one can] build a train that gets a structural failure if greater than >>>> N passengers of a given mass (I assumed the weight is due to >>>> electromagnetism or that gravity doesn't affect time for simplicity) >>>> are on board. >>> >>> Prove it. You seem to think it's obvious, so the proof should be easy. >> >> By experience we know this is so. > > What is your experience with arbitrarily stretchable trains? I don't > have any such experience. > > Prove that you can build a train which can be stretched the way you have > proposed and yet which will fall apart if one more person steps foot into > it. As I stated previously, when I looked this argument I used a train (platform) positioned along the y-axis. I let the length of this platform be 100 light-years. One end is at x=0,y=0, and the other end is at x=0,y=100 light-years. I let the passengers be spaced at one meter intervals. They are boarding one end of the train at 1 person per second and are leaving the train at one person per second as measured by the passenger's watches at each end of the train. There are N people on this train in N chairs intially (when all points of the train are on the y-axis). I let there be X atoms on the platform capable of supporting these N people. |
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