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[Phys-L] Assignment for Einsteinians



All Einsteinians, both profane and initiated, should immediately take their
heads out of the sand and resolve the following problem. In Chapter 23 in
his "Relativity" Einstein claims that a clock at rest undergoes time
contraction, that is, runs fast by a factor of gamma relative to a clock
situated at the edge of a rotating disk. The Juggler also claims that this
follows from Lorentz transforms. However Lorentz transforms predict no time
contraction - rather, the only time distortion they predict is symmetrical
time dilation for two inertial systems. So Einsteinians should prove that
their god is not a Juggler and derive, RIGOROUSLY, the time contraction
factor (gamma) from Lorentz transforms.

Pentcho Valev
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