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An immortal fumble by Marcel Luttgens (16-Nov-2002)

"if and only if" according to Elementary Luttgens Algebra
Re: Are all SRists soooo dense ? 

As SRians have shown themselves so impervious to elementary
reasoning, I present hereafter the simplest proof that the
so-called Lorentz transformation are wrong.

In the LT
  x' = f(x - vt) 
  t' = f(t - vx/c^2),
where
  f = 1/sqrt(1 - v^2/c^2),

the variable x can take any imaginable value, according to SRians.
If this is not the case, the LT make of course no sense at all,
and SR, which is based on them, is false.

The "time" LT can take the form
  t' = ft(1 - vx/tc^2).
Then, 
  f = t' / t(1 - vx/tc^2),
or
  1/sqrt(1 - v^2/c^2) = t' / t(1 - vx/tc^2).

According to elementary algebra, this equality is only 
possible if, and only if,
  t' = t * sqrt(1 - v^2/c^2), and
  x = vt.

Clearly, the only value that the variable x can take is vt,
hence the Lorentz transformation reduce to
  x' = 0
  t' = t * sqrt(1 - v^2/c^2).

Iow, the LT are the consequence of a logical error, made by
Einstein, and endorsed by SRians since almost a century.

Marcel Luttgens 
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