"jcon" <cirejcon@yahoo.com> wrote in message 
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> Androcles wrote:
> > > > "PD" <TheDraperFamily@gmail.com> wrote in message
> > > > news:1138211640.913584.151970@g49g2000cwa.googlegroups.com...
> > > > >
> > > > > Androcles wrote:
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > > > > > tau = ( t - v x / c² ) / sqrt(1-v²/c²)
> > > > > > > > tau = ( t - u y / c² ) / sqrt(1-u²/c²)
> > > > > > > > tau = ( t - w z / c² ) / sqrt(1-w²/c²)
> > > > > > > > xi  = ( x - v t ) / sqrt(1-v²/c²)
> > > > > > > > eta = ( y - u t ) / sqrt(1-u²/c²)
> > > > > > > > zeta= ( z - w t ) / sqrt(1-w²/c²)
> > > > > > > >
> > > > > > > > Right or wrong, dumbfuck?
> > > > > > > 
> > > > > > > Equations are seldom right or wrong if you don't define your terms.
> > > > > > > 
> > > > > > > Nevertheless, it looks like you're trying to generalize the
> > > > > > > Lorentz transformation for motion in one direction to
> > > > > > > arbitrary motion in three dimensions, but it's not that simple,
> > > > > > > because it's a nonlinear function of velocity,  so
> > > > > > > the short answer is "wrong"...dumbfuck.
> > > > > >
> > > > > > Ok, so we are done.
> > > > > >   tau = ( t - v x / c²) / sqrt(1-v²/c²)
> > > > > >   xi  = ( x - v t     ) / sqrt(1-v²/c²)
> > > > > > is wrong.
> > > > > > Androcles.
> > > > > >
> > > > > >
> > > > > 
> > > > > No, it's right for motion along the x axis.
> > > >
> > > > Fucking idiot. Spacecraft always go up, that's the z-axis.
> > > >
> > >
> > > :>)
> >
> > Did you note the claim "non-linear" function of velocity?
>
> Last time I checked, 1/sqrt(1-v^2/c^2) was a non linear
> function of v.  I advised you to brush up on your math, but
> you didn't listen.

"In the first place it is clear that the equations must be linear on account 
of the properties of homogeneity which we attribute to space and time." --  
Einstein.

ref http://www.fourmilab.ch/etexts/einstein/specrel/www/

In the second place the equations are not linear -- phuckwitted arsehole 
jcon.

Fuck off, you stupid cunt.

Androcles.