On Monday, December 9, 2024 at 1:45:52 PM UTC-7 Brent Meeker wrote:
On 12/9/2024 5:05 AM, Alan Grayson wrote: *Since the contracted length of the car, from the pov of the garage, can be arbitraily close to zero, as v --> c, there's no way that the car cannot fit in the garage, from the pov of the garage. But from the pov of the car, assumed to have length greater than the garage as an initial condition, the car can never be contained within the garage, as the garage length shrinks. These are the facts. Why don't you focus on the facts, instead of on other BS, such as what I will or won't read? These results are paradoxical if and only if it is assumed there is some objective reality, such as the objective reality that the car can OR cannot fit in the garage. * Turns out that's not "objective reality". It's viewpoint dependent. Surprising, but well understood. * On the issue of time dilation, please be specific about how time dilation somehow cancels out space contraction. AG * Time dilation and space contraction don't "cancel out". What they do is keep the speed of light the same in all frames of reference. Brent I never made the "cancel out" claim and I don't believe it. That was the claim of our local genius who can see multiple non-existent worlds. AG -- 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/987c0399-781e-41b2-8fa7-5755a827682dn%40googlegroups.com.
