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Marcel Luttgens: Forget my so-called proof!  (8-Jun-2002)

> I just wrote:
>
> "I have already demonstrated that the relation
> a' (or b, as you like) = a/(g(1-vV/c^2)) is false."
>
> I think it's worth repeating the demonstration, because
> it is not refutable:
>
> The "time" LT is t' = g(t-xv/c^2).
> When x = a+Vt, this LT becomes, according to SR (not to me),
> t' = g(t-(a+Vt)v/c^2) = gt(1-Vv/c^2) - gav/c^2.
>
> The "position" LT is x' = g(x-vt).
> By replacing x by a+Vt, it becomes, also according to SR,
> x' = g(a+Vt-vt) = ga + gt(V-v).
>
> But x' can also be expressed by the relation
> x' = a' (or b, if you prefer) + V't',
> where V' = (V-v)/(1-Vv/c^2).
>
> Hence,
> x' = a/(g(1-vV/c^2)) + [(V-v)/(1-Vv/c^2)] * g(t-(a+Vt)v/c^2).
>
> This relation is valid for any value of V and t.
> Thus, it is valid when V = 0, t = 0.
> Then, x' = a/g + gav^2/c^2, a correct solution according to SR.
>
> Or, x' = ga + gt(V-v) gives another solution, i.e. x' = ga.
>
> Only a false theory gives two different solutions to the same problem.
> This amply demonstrates that SR is wrong.
>
> As I told you many times, the correct value of t' is obtained by
> replacing x by x-a = Vt in the Lorentz transformation
> t' = g(t-xv/c^2). Then, t' = gt(1-Vv/c^2), and the term -gav/c^2,
> on which the so-called relativity of simultaneity is based,
> simply disappears.
> Otoh, x' = a' + V't' becomes x' = ga + gt(V-v), which reduces,
> as shown above, to x' = ga when t = 0. No contradiction anymore !
>
> Marcel Luttgens

Sorry, x' = ga + gt(V-v) is of course equivalent to
x' = a/(g(1-vV/c^2)) + [(V-v)/(1-Vv/c^2)] * g(t-(a+Vt)v/c^2)

Forget my so-called proof!

Marcel Luttgens

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