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From: Thomas Heger <ttt_heg@web.de>
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Subject: Re: Approximately 300,000 km/s With Respect To What?
Date: Tue, 23 Jul 2024 08:16:39 +0200
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Am Montag000022, 22.07.2024 um 13:29 schrieb Mikko:

>>>
>>> Whatever you say - Poincare had enough wit
>>> to understand how idiotic rejecting Euclid
>>> would be, and he has written it clearly
>>> enough for anyone able to read (even if not
>>> clearly enough for you, poor stinker).
>>
>> Poincare was a mathematician and a very good one.
>>
>> He wandered into physics, because he was dealing with the Lorentz 
>> transformation and with Maxwells equations.
> 
> And the practical problem of synchronization of clocks at diffrent 
> locations.
> 

I don't think so, because Poincaré was a mathematician and 
mathematicians are not known for practical thinking.

It was actually Einstein, who thought about synchronization of remote 
clocks and how that could be done.

TH