Re: EHRENFEST PARADOX AND OTHER IDIOCIES

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From: harald
Date: Thu, 04 Mar 2010 11:50

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On Mar 4, 7:47 am, Pentcho Valev <pva...@yahoo.com> wrote:
> For a century human rationality has been procrusteanized into
> conformity with Einstein's idea that, for a non-rotating observer, the
> periphery of a rotating disk is LONGER than the periphery of a non-
> rotating disk:

Wrong.
- A. Lorentz, Nature Feb.17 1921, p.793+

[..]

> Now John Norton will be able to explain to believers how an 80m long
> pole can be trapped inside a 40m long barn (the barn is melted and
> then solidified?) and how a bug can be both dead and alive:

[..]
>
> http://hyperphysics.phy-astr.gsu.edu/Hbase/Relativ/bugrivet.html
> "The bug-rivet paradox is a variation on the twin paradox and is
> similar to the pole-barn paradox.....The end of the rivet hits the
> bottom of the hole before the head of the rivet hits the wall. So it
> looks like the bug is squashed.....All this is nonsense from the bug's
> point of view. The rivet head hits the wall when the rivet end is just
> 0.35 cm down in the hole! The rivet doesn't get close to the
> bug....The paradox is not resolved."

I already explained that one to you.
- H. van Lintel et al, Eur.J.Phys. no.26, 2005, p.19+
http://stacks.iop.org/0143-0807/26/19

Harald

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