I don't think he was wrong, just misunderstood and I don't understand it
either.
The lorenz transform is symmentrical so mesons see the atmosphere contracted
and the earth based observer sees the point where the mesons are coming from
contracted too.
Emperiment to test what I say:
If you put coincident counters up in such a way as to track the path of the
mesons and it wax possible to find where a particular shower originated from
the measurement would find the spallation point just above the lab not 100
miles away. Measurement is by triangulation.
So a pile of counters in a cube could find the direction of the particles
and thus where coincident particles originated from.
Merry Christmas
"Pentcho Valev" wrote in message
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On Dec 24, 2:52 pm, "Dirk Van de moortel" dirkvandemoor...@ThankS-NO-
SperM.hotmail.com wrote in sci.physics.relativity:
"Abonito" wrote:
Relativity Geometry
Relativity - Affine Geometry ?
Einstein's special theory of relativity is about measurements between
frames
of reference in a state of non acceleration.
Not really. Special relativity can work with accelerated
objects and frames, but never mind.
It is an observation that the
velocity of light is independent of the relative velocity between
observer
and the source. From this Lorenz postulated a length contraction to
allow
for this. Einstein derived the same equation from the observations.
If you look at this equation there is no special frame so any frame may
be
taken as the reference frame.
Let us consider the passage of mesons from the origin in the upper
atmosphere to their arrival at a counter on the earth's surface. The
observer "sees" the origin from his frame and since he is "looking" at
the
meson then this point is only a few feet above the laboratory roof
because
of the Lorenz contraction.
No, not at all.
The observer on the ground knows that and where in the upper
atmosphere muons (and other stuff) are created. Also knowing
how short muons live on the average, he calculates that there
are much more muons reaching the ground than expected.
It turns out that if the "internal muon lifetime clocks" are slowed
down by the precisely the amount described by the equations,
the number that reaches the ground fits the expected value.
This is "time dilation" in action.
Moortel Moortel what you call "how short muons live on average" your
masters used to call "muon lifetime at rest". But they don't even
mention it anymore. Why? Because people now know that this "muon
lifetime at rest" is one of the greatest frauds ever devised by
Einstein criminal cult:
http://groups.google.ca/group/sci.ph...d1af61851c041?
When the lifetime "at rest" is measured, by "at rest" Einstein
criminal cult mean a crash undergone by the muon in which its speed
changes from about 300000km/s to zero. That crash is so terrible that
the muon "dies" quickly, much more quickly than muons that have not
undergone the crash:
http://web.mit.edu/c_hill/www/muons_paper.pdf
"In this experiment, we measure two of the basic properties of the
muon, namely, its mean lifetime and mass in its rest frame. We measure
the decay curve of cosmic-ray muons that have come to rest in a
plastic scintillator by looking for electrons produced in their
decay."
Pentcho Valev