Re: MICHEL JANSSEN EXPLAINS LENGTH CONTRACTION

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From: Randy Poe
Date: Tue, 13 Nov 2007 17:36

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On Nov 13, 12:14 pm, Pentcho Valev <pva...@yahoo.com> wrote:
> On Nov 13, 6:29 pm, Randy Poe <poespam-t...@yahoo.com> wrote:
>
>
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> > On Nov 13, 8:57 am, Pentcho Valev <pva...@yahoo.com> wrote:
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> > >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."
>
> I have neither an interpretation nor a misinterpretation of length
> contraction

I didn't ask for one. Your common format is to provide
a misinterpretation of the paper you cite, usually along
the lines that someone in the "priesthood" is upsetting
the "orthodoxy".

So what is your misinterpretation of what Janssen is
saying?

> But this does not mean that Harvey Brown's interpretation is less
> idiotic than Michel Janssen's interpretation.

Ah, so you didn't offer this as someone you think is
a disbeliever. You actually had no particular reason for
citing this paper. OK. Even less content than your
usual threads.

                 - Randy

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