On Thursday, January 30, 2025 at 6:48:21 AM UTC-7 Jesse Mazer wrote:

On Thu, Jan 30, 2025 at 12:51 AM Alan Grayson <agrays...@gmail.com> wrote:

On Wednesday, January 29, 2025 at 6:52:47 PM UTC-7 Brent Meeker wrote:

Whooo!  Hoooo!

Brent


Another fool who doesn't get it? Another fool who can't think out of the 
box? Jesse claims that the LT preserves what it predicts for local events 
AND, according to his lights, using the LT it can be shown that lengths are 
EXPANDED. OTOH, it's universally predicted that lengths are CONTRACTED 
under the LT.


No, it's universally predicted that length in a frame where an object is 
*in motion* (coordinate-motion using the term I coined in my previous 
comment, to distinguish from your alternate non-standard usage which I 
called 'designated-motion') is contracted relative to that object's "proper 
length" in the frame where the object is *at rest* (coordinate-rest), the L 
in the length contraction equation is always stated to be the proper 
length. So, if you use the LT to transform FROM the frame where the object 
is in motion (coordinate-motion) TO the frame where the object is at rest 
(coordinate-rest), treating the coordinate-motion frame as what you call 
the "source frame" and the coordinate-rest frame as what you call the 
"target frame" for the LT, in this case the length should be contracted in 
the source frame and larger in the target frame,


*So, after our exhausting discussion, you still have no clue what I meant 
by source and target frames. I never said anything about a LT from a frame 
where the object is in motion. I alway stated I was transforming FROM a 
rest frame to a moving frame. Is there any textbook which makes your claim? 
I've never seen it, or heard about it, or hinted about it, and for this 
reason I ignored your mathematics. AG*
 

that's all that I meant when the LT can sometimes predict an expanded 
length in the target frame (expanded relative to length in the source 
frame, not relative to the object's proper length). And I explicitly showed 
you the math (just some basic algebra!) to demonstrate that this is the 
case in the post at 
https://groups.google.com/g/everything-list/c/ykkIYDL3mTg/m/giZVF9PpDQAJ 
which you ignored.

Of course I have already clarified this point many times, so I'm guessing 
you won't actually consider my clarification thoughtfully and will just 
keep repeating your same cliched phrases as if I hadn't said anything.

Jesse

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