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On May 6, 5:21 pm, Marvin the Martian wrote:

> Indeed, the fact that there was asymmetry in Maxwell's equations with
> regard to electromagnetic induction ruled out a rest frame

This is not true.  Because of Maxwell's equations, the mid-to-
late-19th-century physicists all believed in the Aether --- an
absolute frame of reference.  As Professor Roberts fondly would say
"you need to study the subject at hand" and follow up by a <shrug>.
So, <shrug>

> and lead to
> the investigation of how the equations DO transform.

Oh, yes, you can transform all you want, but try not to play a fast
one by introducing mathemagics into all these steps, OK?

> That lead to the
> Lorentz transformation, which is the mathematics that powers SR.

Yes, indeed.  PD, the unemployed professor, does not think so.
<shrug>

Oh, by the way, the Lorentz transform was actually transformed a few
times.  The very original version of the Lorentz transform must
reference back to the absolute frame of reference as the results of
the MMX demand.  You see.  All transforms including the Galilean
(circa 16th century), the Voigt (1887), and the Lorentz (Larmor's
version 1890's, Poincare's version 1904-5 or so) transforms involve
three points/frames/parties.  They are two observers and one
observed.  In Larmor's Lorentz transform, one of these observers must
be the absolute frame of reference.  Poincare made a mistake in his
mathematics.  In doing so, any of these two observers does not have to
be the absolute frame of reference.  Yours truly did explain this in a
greater detail.  See the post below.

http://groups.google.com/group/sci.physics.relativity/msg/c540aaf23412f1e2?hl=en

So, Maxwell's equations, after all, still require the absolute frame
of reference if the mistake of Poincare is exorcised.  Poincare's
version of the Lorentz transform (plagiarized by Einstein the nitwit,
the plagiarist, and the liar) is only valid in a very special
circumstance.  Thus, the Lorentz transform as you know of cannot be
valid in general.  <shrug>

So, stop gulping down cans of fermented diarrhea of Einstein the
nitwit, the plagiarist, and the liar.  <shrug>