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Re: "The Limitations of Mathematics in Physics"

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From: mL
Date: Wed, 12 Dec 2007 00:08
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AKGMJC@gmail.com wrote:
...
> Einstein did not understand secondary school mathematics just like all
> other Einsteinians. 

.. and the evidence for that statement is ?

> Secondary school students learn that
> (x^2-y^2)/(x-y)=x+y only under the restriction that x is not equal to -
> y.

.. so what?

> All results of SR which uses LT are under the speed limit restriction
> that v<c. The relativistic addition of speed is under this
> restriction. Yet Einstein set v=c to "deduce" a "revolutionary" result
> c+c=c.

Where did he do that?  You're advised to give a reference!

> Einstein did not understand the difference between having a quantity
> which is zero and not having a qunatity. For example a photon which
> does not stop has not rest mass. But Einstein asserted that  it has a
> rest mass which is zero. They are different things. For example, in
> scondary school maths teaches that having no slope means the line is
> vertical and having zero slope means that the line is horizontal. For
> Mr. EDinstein, there was no difference between horizontal lines and
> vertical lines.

More unsupported statements. Apparently you just make up things.

> It is this type of elementary errors Einstein made, ..

.. no examples provided -- only rarified steamware

> ... which are
> consistent to his reputation as a secondary school maths student,
> which makes us suspect the entire theory of SR.

.. and these 'us'es are?

/mel
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