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An immortal fumble by Vertner Vergon (27-Apr-2006)

"You're suffering from myopea"
> > Postulate 1: Longitudinal length and "distance" are the same thing as
> > longitudinal length is also a distance.
> >
> > Postulate 2: Velocity is distance per unit time.
> >
> > Conclusion: Since longitudinal length reduces with an increase in
> > velocity, then *observed* velocity reduces with an increase in velocity
> > of the moving frame.
> 
> Longitudinal length of an object in relative motion with respect to
> you, is the difference between the distances of two points on the
> object, measured simultaneously in your frame.
> Since nothing is moving between the endpoints of the object
> during some time interval, the act of dividing the difference between
> these distances by a time interval is meaningless.

VERT
You're suffering from myopea. You just said that the *length* is the
"distance".You are agreeing with me and don't know it. Next, you are
saying that dividing the distance by time is meaningless*! I guess you
never learned the definition of velocity.  Pity.
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