Path: ...!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Python Newsgroups: sci.physics.relativity Subject: Re: Getting there at last... Date: Sat, 6 Apr 2024 13:54:36 +0200 Organization: CCCP Lines: 23 Message-ID: References: <1HWE6H1jV8YTvxfaaL7fnCCcpe8@jntp> <660BAEAC.433D@ix.netcom.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Date: Sat, 06 Apr 2024 11:54:38 +0200 (CEST) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="1a35309241bb0435e3d6990ae7f00236"; logging-data="2179642"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1+4PzPBwmTtB/Rj/pRHhO//" User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird Cancel-Lock: sha1:6tQbVituFXJWA4qr+v1Ms6CDqFQ= In-Reply-To: Content-Language: en-US Bytes: 2211 Le 06/04/2024 à 09:03, Thomas Heger a écrit : .... > 'relativity' is actually an undisputable fact, because everything moves > relative to something else. > > It's such a simple fact, that hardly anybody can reject it. > > There exist another view, which is based on Newton's absolute space, > which would allow to defince velocity in respect to the universe. > > This view is actually the position of Einstein in SRT, even if it is > self-contradicting. > > We can see this in the use of velocity v without definition of a > reference point, in respect to which velocity is measured. This statement of yours is utterly wrong: in Einstein paper v is, as it always been in physics since Galileo by the way, ALWAYS defined with respect to a specific frame of reference. Your abilities to misunderstand things are amazing Thomas.