Re: The Simplest Genuine Refutation of Special Relativity

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From: Daryl McCullough
Date: Sun, 07 Jan 2007 23:30

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Wolfgang G. Gasser says...

>Do you understand the light clock reasoning? See for instance:
>http://www.phys.unsw.edu.au/einsteinlight/jw/text_module4.htm
>
>The light clock reasoning is EQUIVALENT to the SR constancy of
>the speed of light. So if in a certain situation the light clock
>reasoning cannot be applied without contradiction, then also c
>cannot be constant.

Right. c is only constant as measured in an inertial frame.

>> What is *not* legitimate is to use the Lorentz transformations,
>> because those are only valid for transformations between inertial
>> coordinate systems.
>
>Do you mean that Special Relativity does not explain the
>Michelson-Morley experiment? "Transformations between inertial
>coordinate systems" are certainly not applicable to the sun-earth
>system.

Special Relativity is not the same thing as the Lorentz Transformations.
The Lorentz Transformations are only applicable between inertial
coordinate systems. SR is applicable any time spacetime curvature
can be neglected.

--
Daryl McCullough
Ithaca, NY

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