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On Oct 18, 2:28 pm, "Dirk Van de moortel"
<dirkvandemoor...@nospAm.hotmail.com> wrote:
> Pentcho Valev <pva...@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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> >http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herbert_Dingle
> > "Herbert Dingle (2 August 1890 - 4 September 1978), an English
> > physicist and natural philosopher, who served as president of the
> > Royal Astronomical Society from 1951 to 1953 (...) He was one of the
> > founders of the British Society for the History of Science, and served
> > as President from 1955 to 1957. He founded what later became the
> > British Society for the Philosophy of Science as well as its journal,
> > the British Journal for The Philosophy of Science."
>
> Here's how utterly stupid became at the end of his life:
>    http://users.telenet.be/vdmoortel/dirk/Physics/Dingle/DinglesTrivialF...
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> Dirk Vdm

If a theory says "The greenness of the crocodile exceeds its length",
the refutation is impossible or, if someone is naive enough to try
one, Clever Moortel is always there to demonstrate utter stupidity.
Why don't you look, Clever Moortel, for utter stupidity inside
Einsteiniana? Can a 80m long pole be safely trapped inside a 40m long
barn? Can a bug be both dead and alive?

http://math.ucr.edu/home/baez/physics/Relativity/SR/barn_pole.html
"These are the props. You own a barn, 40m long, with automatic doors
at either end, that can be opened and closed simultaneously by a
switch. You also have a pole, 80m long, which of course won't fit in
the barn. Now someone takes the pole and tries to run (at nearly the
speed of light) through the barn with the pole horizontal. Special
Relativity (SR) says that a moving object is contracted in the
direction of motion: this is called the Lorentz Contraction. So, if
the pole is set in motion lengthwise, then it will contract in the
reference frame of a stationary observer.....So, as the pole passes
through the barn, there is an instant when it is completely within the
barn. At that instant, you close both doors simultaneously, with your
switch. Of course, you open them again pretty quickly, but at least
momentarily you had the contracted pole shut up in your barn. The
runner emerges from the far door unscathed.....If the doors are kept
shut the rod will obviously smash into the barn door at one end. If
the door withstands this the leading end of the rod will come to rest
in the frame of reference of the stationary observer. There can be no
such thing as a rigid rod in relativity so the trailing end will not
stop immediately and the rod will be compressed beyond the amount it
was Lorentz contracted. If it does not explode under the strain and it
is sufficiently elastic it will come to rest and start to spring back
to its natural shape but since it is too big for the barn the other
end is now going to crash into the back door and the rod will be
trapped in a compressed state inside the barn."

http://hyperphysics.phy-astr.gsu.edu/Hbase/Relativ/bugrivet.html
"The bug-rivet paradox is a variation on the twin paradox and is
similar to the pole-barn paradox.....The end of the rivet hits the
bottom of the hole before the head of the rivet hits the wall. So it
looks like the bug is squashed.....All this is nonsense from the bug's
point of view. The rivet head hits the wall when the rivet end is just
0.35 cm down in the hole! The rivet doesn't get close to the
bug....The paradox is not resolved."

Pentcho Valev
pvalev@yahoo.com