Path: ...!weretis.net!feeder8.news.weretis.net!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: Thomas Heger Newsgroups: sci.physics.relativity Subject: Re: Approximately 300,000 km/s With Respect To What? Date: Tue, 23 Jul 2024 08:16:39 +0200 Lines: 25 Message-ID: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: individual.net aGzkytSB5Ps7y0UF0YpNSg8kMC8vmH8z/Br6tdpbkkBnBWNnyg Cancel-Lock: sha1:b6g9qVIlYHZ7Cgsu1RMjXtUYJoA= sha256:+cUySLeGSAOq2ODuZ6in544dYYyNtV2YM2IgiW4EIo4= User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird Content-Language: de-DE In-Reply-To: Bytes: 2194 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