Re: The Simplest Refutation of Special Relativity

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From: arvee
Date: Tue, 02 Jan 2007 17:15

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Wolfgang G. Gasser wrote:
> Two distant observers with each a (transversal) LIGHT CLOCK orbit at a
> constant distance around their common center (assumed at rest).
>
> Special relativity postulates that the light beams in both light clocks
> propagate at c relative to both (almost inertially moving) observers.
>
> This requires that for each observer the clock rate of the opposite clock
> CAN be lower than the clock rate of his own clock.
>
> Because of symmetry and unchanging distance, clock rate CANNOT differ.
>
> The impossibility of mutual time dilation in this situation entails the
> impossibility of a constant speed of light as a general law.

You are mistaken. Many aspects of relativity have been tested
experimentally; see, eg.,
http://math.ucr.edu/home/baez/physics/Relativity/SR/experiments.html
or
http://www2.corepower.com:8080/~relfaq/experiments.html

R.G. Vickson

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