On Jul 27, 6:31 am, stevendaryl3...@yahoo.com (Daryl McCullough) wrote: Einstein didn't consider "Lorentz coordinates" to be sacrosanct. Then what excuse is there for Einstein using the oxymoronic phrase, "simultaneity is relative"? Isn't that just a peculiarity of Lorentzian coordinates? On Jul 28, 6:29 am, stevendaryl3...@yahoo.com (Daryl McCullough) wrote: On Jul 27, 6:31 am
On Jul 27, 6:31 am, stevendaryl3...@yahoo.com (Daryl McCullough) wrote: Einstein didn't consider "Lorentz coordinates" to be sacrosanct. Then what excuse is there for Einstein using the oxymoronic phrase, "simultaneity is relative"? Isn't that just a peculiarity of Lorentzian coordinates? On Jul 28, 6:29 am, stevendaryl3...@yahoo.com (Daryl McCullough) wrote: On Jul 27, 6:31 am
On Jul 27, 10:21 pm, Shubee <e.Shu...@gmail.com> wrote: On Jul 27, 6:31 am, stevendaryl3...@yahoo.com (Daryl McCullough) wrote: As for phrases such as "moving clocks run slow", that phrase isn't used by physicists. It's only used in introductory discussions of relativity. Michael Fowler is a professor of physicshttp://www.phys.virginia.edu/Scripts/personal.asp?UID=mf1i
On Jul 27, 10:21 pm, Shubee <e.Shu...@gmail.com> wrote: On Jul 27, 6:31 am, stevendaryl3...@yahoo.com (Daryl McCullough) wrote: As for phrases such as "moving clocks run slow", that phrase isn't used by physicists. It's only used in introductory discussions of relativity. Michael Fowler is a professor of physicshttp://www.phys.virginia.edu/Scripts/personal.asp?UID=mf1i
Shubee says... On Jul 27, 6:31 am, stevendaryl3...@yahoo.com (Daryl McCullough) wrote: As for phrases such as "moving clocks run slow", that phrase isn't used by physicists. It's only used in introductory discussions of relativity. Michael Fowler is a professor of physics http://www.phys.virginia.edu/Scripts/personal.asp?UID=mf1i and he teaches "Moving Clocks Run Slow"