Path: ...!3.eu.feeder.erje.net!feeder.erje.net!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!not-for-mail From: ram@zedat.fu-berlin.de (Stefan Ram) Newsgroups: sci.physics.relativity Subject: Re: Incorrect mathematical integration Date: 20 Jul 2024 11:10:40 GMT Organization: Stefan Ram Lines: 12 Expires: 1 Jul 2025 11:59:58 GMT Message-ID: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: news.uni-berlin.de ZD9MHUvY0EVWWLGE//ZUcgHyRv5pPxykjHqqri30ADv1R3 Cancel-Lock: sha1:7MopqI9OHvRQAchGVGgN3hBaGF4= sha256:pLnMTERgrVlUtmNaVqSPinFljrSqXVt3PWmwPEZ2/GM= X-Copyright: (C) Copyright 2024 Stefan Ram. All rights reserved. Distribution through any means other than regular usenet channels is forbidden. It is forbidden to publish this article in the Web, to change URIs of this article into links, and to transfer the body without this notice, but quotations of parts in other Usenet posts are allowed. X-No-Archive: Yes Archive: no X-No-Archive-Readme: "X-No-Archive" is set, because this prevents some services to mirror the article in the web. But the article may be kept on a Usenet archive server with only NNTP access. X-No-Html: yes Content-Language: en-US Bytes: 2066 Mikko wrote or quoted: >On 2024-07-19 19:51:32 +0000, Richard Hachel said: >>I once explained to a speaker that additions of relativistic speeds >>were not done in a common way, and that for example 0.5c+0.5c did not >>make c. >That is a clear indication that you cannot explain. When nobody says otherwise, the symbols in "0.5c+0.5c" mean what they usually do (from math class back in school), so that sum is still c. Thing is, it doesn't give you the speed of a guy relative to Earth in a situation where he's cruising at 0.5c on one of those moving walkways that's also zipping along at 0.5c itself.