On Monday, December 9, 2024 at 5:31:17 AM UTC-7 John Clark wrote:
On Mon, Dec 9, 2024 at 3:55 AM Alan Grayson <[email protected]> wrote: *> This is nonsense.* [...] Obviously, the paradox exists only when the car speeds up, to a sufficient speed so it can fit exactly in the garage.which you refuse to admit. *I admit that in different frames of reference clocks running at different speeds and meter-sticks having different lengths is odd,* *Not odd if you understand where those results come from. They come from the LT, which is, I believe, the only frame transformation which preserves the frame invariance of the SoL. If we assume the SoL is frame invariant, then length contraction and time dilation are necessarily implied. AG* *but you need more than strangeness to have a paradox. My high school physics textbook explained, and I'm sure many others did too, that Einstein discovered that these two effects cancel out in such a way that no logical contradiction is ever produced, and that's what's required to have a paradox. I'd suggest that you read such a textbook but I know you never will, and even if you did you'd just say the textbook was wrong as were all physicists since 1905. * *John K Clark See what's on my new list at Extropolis <https://groups.google.com/g/extropolis>* tq4 hr -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/everything-list/217f0035-6b72-44ca-8df1-9b9cc85ffbcbn%40googlegroups.com.
