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From: clzb93ynxj@att.net (LaurenceClarkCrossen)
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Subject: Re: Gravitational time dilation HOAX along the years
Date: Fri, 27 Dec 2024 22:38:19 +0000
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On Sat, 21 Dec 2024 10:01:16 +0000, J. J. Lodder wrote:

> LaurenceClarkCrossen <clzb93ynxj@att.net> wrote:
>
>> On Tue, 17 Dec 2024 22:28:45 +0000, Ross Finlayson wrote:
>>
>>> On 12/17/2024 11:50 AM, rhertz wrote:
>>>> EXCERPTS FROM EINSTEIN'S 1911 PAPER:  On the Influence of Gravitation on
>>>> the Propagation of Light
> [snip]
>>> Actually space-contraction after motion was arrived
>>> at long before that, where what you're looking at
>>> is ten different things mashed into a muddy wad,
>>> and what you're looking at is what _you're_ seeing.
>
>> Length contraction was one of the first proposed solutions for saving
>> the ether from the MMX, and was the first discarded as ad hoc nonsense,
>> and rightly so.
>
> Until Lorentz made it respectable,
> by deriving it from his electron theory.
> So it is usually called Lorentz contraction these days,
> (or Lorentz-Fitzgerald)
>
> Jan
It's still ad hoc fiction because nothing can cause all lengths to
change in unison when all materials are different, least of all relative
motion.