I don't know. harry
On Tue, Mar 4, 2014 at 5:51 PM, James Bowery <[email protected]> wrote: > What about probability theory? Is that a clever way of encoding the > postulates of relativity theory? > > > On Tue, Mar 4, 2014 at 4:43 PM, H Veeder <[email protected]> wrote: > >> The geometry of spacetime is a clever way of encoding the postulates of >> relativity theory, so of course spacetime will contain a parameter C. The >> use of spacetime to describe experience depends on the scope of the >> validity of the postulates. >> >> >> Harry >> >> >> On Tue, Mar 4, 2014 at 1:42 PM, James Bowery <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> More to the point -- or perhaps I should say, to the bit -- is that it >>> makes no more sense to talk about speeds greater than light than it does >>> probabilities greater than 1: >>> >>> http://www.mathpages.com/home/kmath216/kmath216.htm >>> >>> >>> On Tue, Mar 4, 2014 at 12:35 PM, D R Lunsford >>> <[email protected]>wrote: >>> >>>> No one will ever take cold fusion seriously if they come here and read >>>> nonsense about how relativity is wrong. All of these specious arguments >>>> focus on the constancy of the speed of light. >>>> >>>> What is never understood is that C isn't the speed of anything in >>>> particular. It is a parameter that characterizes the geometry of spacetime, >>>> which is no longer Euclidean. The structure of this geometry emerges from a >>>> very simple (group theoretic) analysis. The parameter C emerges out of the >>>> analysis and is either finite, or not. Experience shows that it is finite. >>>> The derivation is here, I gave it some years ago and this person has added >>>> commentary, most of which is helpful. Only simple algebra is required. >>>> >>>> That light goes at C is incidental to the existence of a universal >>>> constant with the dimensions of speed. It does so because the corresponding >>>> field is massless. The most important point to be grasped is that one does >>>> not assume C=constant - this comes right out of the symmetry and >>>> homogeneity analysis. Euclidean geometry is also characterized by a >>>> constant - however it is imaginary, and corresponds to the "circular points >>>> at infinity" in projective geometry. >>>> >>>> http://membrane.com/sidd/wundrelat.txt >>>> >>>> -drl >>>> >>>> >>>> -- >>>> "Time flies like an arrow, but fruit flies like a banana." - Marx >>>> >>> >>> >> >
