Roberts writes: "This is why most (if not all) physicists today believe in Special Relativity - it is IMPOSSIBLE to construct an alternative description without violating one of the postulates or disregarding a very large body of experimental evidence. If you truly believe that Special Relativity simply must be false (for whatever reason), go back and review the four Postulates, and find a hole in them." This is why most (if not all) physicists today are failed mathematicians- it is IMPOSSIBLE for special relativity to be anything other than false. There is nothing wrong with the group postulates, but SR violates the second. " 2. Any transformation has an inverse, which is also a transformation." So what is the inverse transformation to x' = (x-vt)/sqrt(1-v^2/c^2) ? A little algebra and x' * sqrt(1-v^2/c^2) = x-vt x = x' * sqrt(1-v^2/c^2) + vt. That is not an equation you'll ever see in SR. However, the PoR must hold. Consider v = 0.866c, and this lasts for a period of time of 1 year; c, of course, is one light-year per year. By definition, in the frame of S', we must move a distance from (0',0') to (0.866', 1.0') if we have a velocity v = 0.866. We know ask what this distance is in S, and to do that we use x = x' * sqrt(1-v^2/c^2) +vt. = 0.866 * 0.5 + 0.866*.. err... t? .... [1] ah, we have a problem. We do not yet have t. Well, t' = (t-vx/c^2) / sqrt(1-v^2/c^2), so t' * sqrt(1-v^2/c^2) = t-vx/c^2, t = t' * sqrt(1-v^2/c^2) + vx/c^2. = 0.866 * 0.5 + 0.866 * ?....[2], again we have a problem. |
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