Re: MICHEL JANSSEN EXPLAINS LENGTH CONTRACTION

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From: Randy Poe
Date: Tue, 13 Nov 2007 16:29

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On Nov 13, 8:57 am, Pentcho Valev <pva...@yahoo.com> wrote:
> http://www.ias.umn.edu/pdf/TimeandRelativity-Janssen.pdf
> Michel Janssen: "Does Minkowski space-time, thus understood, explain
> length contraction and the phenomena examined in this talk? Yes and
> no. It explains them by showing they need no explanation."
>

You forgot to add your usual misinterpretation to this. What
do you think is the significance of that statement in light
of his opening sentence?

"I defend the widely held view challenged by Harvey Brown
in his recent book that special relativity is preferable to those
parts of Lorentz's electron theory it replaced because various
phenomena that special relativity reveals to be of purely kinematical
origin were given a dynamical explanation in Lorentz's theory."

                 - Randy

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