Le dim. 15 déc. 2024, 15:26, John Clark <[email protected]> a écrit :

>
> On Sun, Dec 15, 2024 at 8:31 AM Alan Grayson <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>
> * > Above a certain speed, since the car is length contracted from the pov
> of the garage frame, the car will fit in the garage,*
>
>
>
> *Yes*
>
>> * > and waiting some time, then being in a different reference frame, it
>> could hit the back door. *
>
>
> *No because length contraction is not the only thing that happens when the
> car goes fast, the faster the car goes the greater the discrepancy between
> what the car driver considers to be simultaneous (such as both the front
> and the back of the car being in the garage) and what the garage man
> considers to be simultaneous. I repeat, above a certain speed there's NO
> frame of reference in which a car shaped hole appears on the back door of
> the garage.  *
>
> *> why is it claimed that lack of simultaneity between frames solves the
>> problem, since we're only considering simultaneity in garage frame where
>> the car fits? AG *
>
>
> *The garage man** says that due to length contraction the car will fit in
> the garage, and to prove it he says that both doors were closed while
> simultaneously both the front and the back of the car were in the garage.
> But the car driver disagrees, he insists the car has not fit in the garage
> because those two events were **not** simultaneous. Everybody agrees
> there was a time when the front of the car was in the garage, and everybody
> agrees there was a time when the back of the car was in the garage,  but
> they disagree if those two events happened at the same time that both doors
> were closed. *
>
>
>> *> It's crazy you're still on this... wtf is your definition of fits in
>> which doesn't involve simultaneously having rear and front of the car in
>> the garage? *
>
>
> *Huh? That is exactly my definition of "fitting", and that's exactly why
> they disagree if the car has fit.  *
>

John, I'm talking to Alan here, this thread is so messed up with BS from
Alan and Cosmin, it's hard to know where in stupidland we are.

🤔😁

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> ida
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