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Re: HOW EINSTEINIANS CAN SOLVE THE TWIN PARADOX

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From: Pentcho Valev
Date: Wed, 27 Feb 2008 09:25
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On Feb 25, 12:25 pm, Pentcho Valev <pva...@yahoo.com> wrote:
> Einsteinians will also try to discover if REDUCTIO AD ABSURDUM has
> something to do with the fact that hypnotists in Einstein criminal
> cult can trap a long train inside a short tunnel:
>
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VSRIyDfo_mY&mode=related&search=
>
> and also a 80m long pole inside a 40m long barn:
>
> http://www.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....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 idiotic corollary of Einstein's 1905 false light postulate called
"length contraction" can give a good illustration of the irreversible
destruction of human rationality in Einstein zombie world. See the
incredible discussion between two zombies - an extremely silly one
called "Tom Roberts" and a less silly one called "Dono" - who are
trying to understand if the 80m long pole trapped inside the 40m long
barn is physically changed or not:

http://groups.google.com/group/sci.physics.relativity/browse_frm/thread/cac579628f39e93d?

Pentcho Valev
pvalev@yahoo.com
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Subject: Re: HOW EINSTEINIANS CAN SOLVE THE TWIN PARADOX
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