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Subject: Re: The truth about the Lorentz Transformation.
Date: Wed, 25 Sep 2024 12:29:44 +0200
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On 2024-09-25 08:33:01 +0000, Python said:

> Le 25/09/2024 à 07:03, Thomas Heger a écrit :
>> Am Sonntag000022, 22.09.2024 um 16:41 schrieb Sylvia Else:
>>> On 17-Sept-24 11:16 am, LaurenceClarkCrossen wrote:
>>>> In reality, the LT is the difference in time taken for the transverse
>>>> and longitudinal beams.
>>>> Like with a river current, the longitudinal motion will be delayed more
>>>> than the transverse.
>>>> This is the difference that should have been detected by the
>>>> Michelson-Morley experiment.
>>>> As with water that is not flowing, we don't need these equations without
>>>> an ether.
>>>> Since relativity does not involve an ether, applying the Lorentz
>>>> Transformation in this context is nonsensical.
>>> 
>>> If you look for equations that describe a universe in which all 
>>> observers measure the same speed for light, then you arrive at the 
>>> Lorentz transformation. This is why Einstein and Lorentz ended up in 
>>> the same place - they both started with the same premise.
>> 
>> As far as I can tell, the question was not the speed of light, but 
>> 'form invariance' between coordinate systems in motion, which motivated 
>> Voigt and Poincare to develop an early form of SRT.
>> 
>> This was taken by Hendrik Lorentz, who developed on that foundation 
>> something, which Poincare named 'Lorentz transform'.
>> 
>> And I have read, that Poincare didn't like that and also not Einstein's SRT.
> 
> You read what? Where?

Thomas makes stuff up all the time.

-- 
athel -- biochemist, not a physicist, but detector of crackpots