On Thu, Jan 9, 2025 at 1:02 AM Alan Grayson <agrayson2...@gmail.com> wrote:
*> I think I've mostly resolved this issue. * *Being confused is bad but there's something worse, convincing yourself that you're not confused when you're still dead wrong, because then you believe you no longer need to learn. * > * Length contraction is sufficient to define and resolve the problem* *You can't understand length contraction without understanding time dilation because the speed of light can't be the same for all observers unless you have BOTH, and if you have both then you must give up simultaneity. And until you stop thinking about things happening in space and remember that they happen in SPACETIME you're never going to understand Special Relativity, and General Relativity would be hopelessly out of your reach. * *> despite the unanimity of our resident experts, the importance of > simultaneity for solving this problem is way overblown.* *As I've said before, nobody on this list has ever been able to convince you that you're wrong about anything and I don't believe anybody ever will. And the tragedy of that is if you think you know everything then you will never learn anything. * *John K Clark See what's on my new list at Extropolis <https://groups.google.com/g/extropolis>* nla -- 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 everything-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/everything-list/CAJPayv3Jj%3DZPOq3aSLSm3ZUyFoS66uvOD3qaSTpxqYxg9je6cw%40mail.gmail.com.
