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Re: A Geometrical Proof of the Non-invariance of the Spacetime Interval



"RAUBER, JOEL" wrote:

In what city do the two people F and F' say breakfast
occured in? According to SR (special relativity) in your opinion?

F says that breakfast occurred in Los Angeles. F', in order to get a
distance of zero between breakfast and lunch (which is what
SR gives for this case), must say that breakfast and lunch both occurred
at the same place. But he must necessarily determine that zero distance
at the time of lunch, when he is in San Diego. So he says that, since
there is zero distance between breakfast and lunch, and lunch occurred
in San Diego, breakfast must have occurred in San Diego (assume that he
had a blindfold on until he arrived at lunch and was driven by a
chauffeur).


Let me pose a slightly different question. Its 10am according to F' several
hours after breakfast and several hours before lunch according to F'

In what city does F' say his breakfast occured?

According to SR, F' _always_ (at and after the occurrence of breakfast)
considers breakfast to have occurred wherever F' (the origin of F')
happens to be at the time.

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