Re: [Vo]:Another attack on the constancy of the speed of light

2014-03-01 Thread John Berry
I have the following argument which responds to your points I believe. Optional:* Argument why rotating frames must experience time distortion under SR:* *Firstly we can observe that if the linear velocity of the rim of a rotating disk would have the observer on that disk see a light clock in a

Re: [Vo]:Another attack on the constancy of the speed of light

2014-02-28 Thread John Berry
If you increase the size of the disk in the non-linear example until it is almost linear (or the same size as the planet), then it is the same minus the possibility of General Relativities experimentally disproven time dilation (with muons), but the experiment works without time dilation, and

Re: [Vo]:Another attack on the constancy of the speed of light

2014-02-28 Thread John Berry
Reading the wiki page, essentially wiki and I are saying the same thing about the same essential experiment, expect the Wiki pages views the clock as the light and observes the light clock from the moving frame ASSUMING constancy from the speed of light and saying the moving frame sees the other

Re: [Vo]:Another attack on the constancy of the speed of light

2014-02-28 Thread John Berry
Ok, here is the way to really hit this one home, but it it a little more complex. So hopefully you can follow that in a large way there is a similarity between the Wikipedia argument and mine. Let's setup a hybrid for fun, we will place mirrors either side of the of the sensors in my experiment

Re: [Vo]:Another attack on the constancy of the speed of light

2014-02-28 Thread H Veeder
John, Unfortunately, upon further reflection these two thought experiments aren't paradoxical, because they involve sending a signal over a non-zero distance. Whenever such signaling is present a putative paradox vanishes when analysed according to the principles of relativity theory . Therefore,

Re: [Vo]:Another attack on the constancy of the speed of light

2014-02-27 Thread John Berry
BTW I should note that while General Relativity predicts time dilation from acceleration, this is apparently not so. Of course this merely means the main cause of disagreement will not be the different rate the clocks keep time, but the path the see the light to take to be straight. This might

Re: [Vo]:Another attack on the constancy of the speed of light

2014-02-27 Thread H Veeder
That is clearer. The thought experiment designed to test GR looks like solid paradox to me. So does the thought experiment designed to test SR. You should illustrate that as well. harry On Wed, Feb 26, 2014 at 10:20 PM, John Berry berry.joh...@gmail.com wrote: Here you go:

Re: [Vo]:Another attack on the constancy of the speed of light

2014-02-27 Thread John Berry
I very much appreciate your saying so Harry! You give me faith in humans! Which SR experiment are you saying I should illustrate? On Fri, Feb 28, 2014 at 3:27 PM, H Veeder hveeder...@gmail.com wrote: That is clearer. The thought experiment designed to test GR looks like solid paradox to me.

Re: [Vo]:Another attack on the constancy of the speed of light

2014-02-27 Thread H Veeder
The linear example you describe below. Harry On Fri, Feb 28, 2014 at 2:09 AM, John Berry berry.joh...@gmail.com wrote: I very much appreciate your saying so Harry! You give me faith in humans! Which SR experiment are you saying I should illustrate? On Fri, Feb 28, 2014 at 3:27 PM, H

Re: [Vo]:Another attack on the constancy of the speed of light

2014-02-27 Thread H Veeder
On second thought, I am not so sure about the linear example. I will need to see it illustrated to be sure. harry On Fri, Feb 28, 2014 at 2:14 AM, H Veeder hveeder...@gmail.com wrote: The linear example you describe below. Harry On Fri, Feb 28, 2014 at 2:09 AM, John Berry

Re: [Vo]:Another attack on the constancy of the speed of light

2014-02-26 Thread H Veeder
The spatial relationships between the discs and clocks is not clear. Can you draw a diagram of the experiment? harry On Mon, Feb 24, 2014 at 10:34 PM, John Berry berry.joh...@gmail.com wrote: For brevity, I will explain it in sentence. and the possible results in a few more, But the longer

Re: [Vo]:Another attack on the constancy of the speed of light

2014-02-26 Thread John Berry
Here you go: http://imageshack.com/a/img198/4812/j2s2.png BTW if acceleration doesn't cause time dilation, even though it is a claim of General Relativity that acceleration does this. Then the the second clock would not be time dilated by that means. But the argument would still stand since the

[Vo]:Another attack on the constancy of the speed of light

2014-02-24 Thread John Berry
For brevity, I will explain it in sentence. and the possible results in a few more, But the longer form solves questions and objections: Take 2 light sensors separated at an appropriate distance, the censors are shaped like CD and are transparent, designated A and B, rotate them at high enough