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Article #5351Re: NEXT EINSTEINS DEEPLY UNDERSTAND PHYSICS
From: Robert J. Kolker
Date: Sat, 22 Mar 2008 02:05
Date: Sat, 22 Mar 2008 02:05
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maxwell wrote: > > Sam, go read Einstein's 1905 paper before you sound off. > The last paragraph of the introduction states: > "The theory to be developed is based - like all electrodynamics - on > the kinematics of the rigid body ...". Einstein was correct. If you > would extend your reading to the EM research around 1900 by Poincare, > Lorenz, Larmor, Abraham etc, you would find that Euler's concept of > the 'rigid body' appeared everywhere. It is this concept (that grounds > classical mechanics) that is inconsistemt with the finite time > differences found in the EM interaction. It is the attempt to > preserve this 'fiction' that results in the Lorentz (Larmor) > transformation. Without the assumption of rigidity we could not measure lumber. We presume our measuring sticks keep their shape when we schlep them around. As long as our tools are "rigid enough" we can use them. Bob Kolker
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