On Wednesday, January 15, 2025 at 11:16:37 AM UTC-7 John Clark wrote:
On Wed, Jan 15, 2025 at 7:58 AM Alan Grayson <[email protected]> wrote: * > **we still have two frames, each predicting the same thing internally -- car fits in garage frame, but doesn't fit in car frame -- which presumably Clark calls "odd", which is his limited admission that something here is awry. AGg* *I admit a lot of stuff happens that I would call "odd" when you start to approach the speed of light, or when gravity becomes ridiculously strong, or when things become ridiculously small, because they are well outside my everyday experience, but none of them produce a logical self-contradiction, and that is what you need for a paradox. It's possible that nature may be stranger than we think, it might even be stranger than we can think, but I am confident it is not logically self-contradictory.* * John K Clark See what's on my new list at Extropolis <https://groups.google.com/g/extropolis>* *Not sure what "logically self-contradictory" means in this context. But when the car can repeatly fail to fit in one frame, yet always fit in another frame, that might satisfy any definition you can come up with. Like I said; for me it's a bridge too far, but I don't expect or demand that anyone agrees with me. AG * 5na -- 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 [email protected]. To view this discussion visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/everything-list/9c7aa0a8-0074-48f5-9aa9-cf6d0e1823f8n%40googlegroups.com.
