On 2 March 2014 05:42, Jesse Mazer <laserma...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Sat, Mar 1, 2014 at 9:55 AM, Edgar L. Owen <edgaro...@att.net> wrote: > >> Jesse, >> >> Of course there is a rational justification for selecting one frame over >> another in many cases. All frames are NOT equal when it comes to >> representing ACTUAL physical facts. >> >> E.g. we can choose various frames to make someone's age pretty much any >> number we like but nevertheless they are still actually the age they think >> they are. If Alice is really 30 we can choose a frame in which she is all >> sorts of different ages >> > Edgar
I'm sorry, but this sort of comment shows that your grasp of relativity theory is about as good as your understanding of block universes - which is to say that yet again, you're completely missing the point. All frames are equal when it comes to representing physical facts, some are just more convenient than others for doing the maths (hence "relativity"). And you can't make Alice's age whatever you like, you can only obtain different values by measuring it from frames moving at different velocities, because the planes of simultaneity attached to those frames intersect Alice's worldline at different points in space-time. Why not go away and read up on the subject before you pontificate about it? -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to everything-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to everything-list@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
