🚀 go-pugleaf

I suggest you don't. Ken Seto has proven that he doesn't know jack about
SR. He is unable to see that relativity of simultaneity is a consequence
of the Lorentz transformation, and he doesn't know the assumptions of SR.

My suggestion would be to pick up a physics text book in which the Lorentz
transformation is developed. It may be a bit hard, but it'll be worth the
effort, trust me. I suggest something like Kleppner and Kolenkow: "An
Introduction to Mechanics" - chapter 11 and 12.

Almost all "layman" litterature about the L. transformation (and SR in
general)  is flawed in some way. You may get a intuitive understanding of
SR, but you'll still make mistakes in your arguments if you try to apply
the Lorentz transformation to a practical problem. This may give rise to
paradoxes which can only be avoided (and explained) by knowing the exact
mathematical foundation of SR (and it's really not that hard)

Mathias Neelen


"Ken H. Seto" wrote:

> On Fri, 24 Nov 2000 17:48:31 GMT, LAVIGNE@DATASYNC.COM (BRYAN LONG)
> wrote:
>
> >I AM HAVING DIFFICULTY UNDERSTANDING WHAT THE LORENTZ TRANSFORMATION
> >IS AND ITS SIGNIFICANCE IN UNDERSTANDING THE THEORY OF RELATIVITY.  I
> >AM A LAYMAN USING A 1980 BOOK BY HERMANN BONDI ENTITLED "RELATIVITY
> >AND COMMON SENSE" AND WISH TO UNDERSTAND THE THEORY OF RELATIVITY.
> >PLEASE DIRECT ME TO A MORE EASILY UNDERSTOOD SOURCE IF YOU CAN DO SO.
> >THANKS -- BRYAN
>
> I suggest that you visit my website
> <http://www.erinet.com/kenseto/book.html> and click onto the section
> called "Doppler Relativity Theory"
>
> Ken Seto