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Ken Seto: Huh?  (25-May-2002)

rbwinn1@mindspring.com> wrote in message
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>
> beda,
> Nothing I post ever shows up on your question to me so I will answer
> directly with this post.
> We have a source of light S which emits light at t=0. At a distance of d
> from S there is an observer O at rest relative to S. Moving toward S is
> another observer O' who is traveling with velocity v such that O' is adjacent
> to observer O at t=0. Now, according to Dr. Albert Einstein's interpretation
> of the Lorentz equations, two events which are simultaneous in the frame of
> reference of O in the direction of motion of O' cannot be simultaneous in the
> frame of reference of O', but since O' is traveling toward S, then in the
> frame of reference of O', the event at S takes place before the event at O.

You made this up. In the reference frame of O' the event takes place when
light travels
a distance S--->O'. In the reference frame of O, O calculates
using the inverse LT that the light path length from S to O' is S-->p.
This been explained to you many times and you just simply ignored it.

Ken Seto

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