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Re: HOW EINSTEIN USED MAXWELL

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From: .. Wilson DSc
Date: Sat, 08 May 2010 21:58
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On Fri, 7 May 2010 15:18:40 -0700 (PDT), PD <thedraperfamily@gmail.com> wrote:

>On May 7, 4:23�pm, ..@..(Henry Wilson DSc) wrote:
>> On Fri, 7 May 2010 05:38:45 -0700 (PDT), PD <thedraperfam...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> >On May 6, 5:31�pm, ..@..(Henry Wilson DSc) wrote:
>> >> On Thu, 6 May 2010 15:18:38 -0700 (PDT), PD <thedraperfam...@gmail.com> wrote:


>> >That old saw. Maxwell's equations are nothing but shorthand for a
>> >serious of English sentences that would take a great number of words
>> >to say with the same precision that the algebraic notation says in
>> >compact form. When you read the equation, all of those terms have been
>> >defined and their conceptual meaning already established. Thus the
>> >interpretation is the conceptual framework that is already written
>> >down before the equations are.
>>
>> Maxwell's equations provide a value for the speed of lightin a medium.
>
>Or without a medium.
>
>They also provide other things, as I've already mentioned. Are you so
>geriatric that you've forgotten the others already?

You woulodn't know what div and curl are so I wont bother to explain...

>> ALL velocities are relative by definition....and that includes light.
>
>Yes, but as I said, this does not necessarily mean that the velocity
>changes when changing reference frame.

...moron.....of course it does.



Henry Wilson...

.......A relativist's IQ = his snipping ability.
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