Re: Time dilation and constriction in special relativity

[Stephen Speicher <sjs@COMPBIO.CALTECH.EDU>]

On Sat, 7 Jun 2003, Pentcho Valev wrote:

> I am going to analyse the situation in which, in the transformation
>
> t' = px + qt,
>
> the coefficient p is different from zero. This assumption leads to such
> a chaos in the time variation between the two inertial systems that the
> argument leading to this chaos amounts to redictio ad absurdum.
> Therefore p = 0 is the only reasonable solution to the problem.

Several people went to the trouble of identifying the error in
your previous formulation, and you have yet to either refute
their argument or acknowledge the error you made. That being the
case, why do you forge ahead with a new formulation, one which,
ubdoubtedly, repeats a similar form of error as in the prior one?

> 1/gamma
> and then
>
> x' = (1/gamma)(x - vt)                  /14/
>
> t' = (1/gamma)t                            /15/
>
> If time dilation is an unreliable experimental finding, we substitute a
> 1 and return to Galilean transformations.

But time dilation is NOT an "unreliable experimental finding," so
there is no rational basis for this assertion. The transverse
Doppler shift is solely a consequence of time dilation in special
relativity, and more than 95 years ago both Einstein and Ritz
made suggestions as to how this might be observed experimentally.
The effect was unambiguously demonstrated experimentally for the
first time some 65 years ago. See "H.E. Ives and G.R. Stillwell,
"An Experimental Study of the Rate of a Moving Atomic Clock,"
_Journal of the Optical Society of America_, pp. 215-226, 1938.

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Stephen
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