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Re: Relativity conundrum

One 'feature' of Special Relativity as Usually Understood & Taught
(SRUUT) is that two events that ARE simultaneous in a particular
frame of reference, MUST NOT be simultaneous in any other frame.

This feature of SRUUT means that clocks cannot be synchronized
between two systems.

I will not speak to the axioms etc. since Bertrand Russell taught me
well that a dependence on totally logical, axiomatic systems is
absurd.
And Goedel said something about the impossibility of complete and
consistent mathematical systems).

At 5:35 PM +0200 4/22/03, Pentcho Valev wrote:

Brian Whatcott wrote:

At 10:17 AM 4/22/2003 +0300, Pentcho, you wrote:
>/snip/
>In my view, the only reliable way to experimentally falsify one of the
>developments
>is to measure the speed of light in a frame NOT CONTAINING THE SOURCE OF
>LIGHT. This
>seems feasible.
>
>Pentcho Valev

?

Is there any reason to suppose that the numerous published experiments
measuring the speed of light in a frame not containing the light source
have some systematic error?

Sorry, Brian, I don't know them - I am not a physicist. Could you describe
some simple one? I was only able to imagine a paradigm-experiment: The
lightning flash reaches the back end of the train, stops a clock there, part
of the light passes through a hole and goes to the front end where it stops
another clock. The clocks were initially synchronized. For the moment I am
not able to imagine an experiment essentially different from this paradigm.

Pentcho


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