On Friday, January 10, 2025 at 12:04:53 PM UTC-7 John Clark wrote:
On Fri, Jan 10, 2025 at 1:52 PM Alan Grayson <agrays...@gmail.com> wrote: *If you believe in Special Relativity then you can't just take length contraction into account, you also have to consider time dilation, and if you have time dilation then simultaneity is not objective but is subjective. And the definition of "fitting in the garage" is that the front of the car is fully within the garage while simultaneously the back of the car is also fully within the garage. * *>If I believe in SR, then I can use length contraction to establish the car won't fit in garage in car's frame.* *That depends entirely on what you mean by "the car won't fit in the garage". In the above I've told you exactly what I mean by the term. What do you mean? * What do I mean; what any sane person would mean; that the car's length is fixed from the pov of the car's frame when car is moving, but the garage's length is shortened from an initial condition where it starts out shorter. AG 4hb -- 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/addd6020-0a60-4b66-b37d-40568bd7f592n%40googlegroups.com.
