"The Ghost In The Machine" wrote in message
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| In sci.physics.relativity, Ockham
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| wrote
| on Sat, 26 Jan 2008 08:57:36 GMT
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| "Tom Roberts" wrote in message
| ...
| | Peri of Pera wrote:
| | The Reason for Time Dilation
| | [...]
| |
| | Things are rather more complicated.
| Things are rather more simple, and you are rather more simple-minded.
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| And the postulates of a logical theory are ... ?
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| We know the three postulates of SR (two of which are
| explicitly stated, the third of which is usually stated
| as a definition):
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| 1. Invariant lightspeed.
| 2. The same physical laws/rules/properties apply to
| all inertial reference frames.
| 3. In a TWLS (A to B) with the second mirror (B) moving,
| the light takes the same amount of time
| traveling from A to B as it does traveling
| from B to A, as observed by A.[*]
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| Since SR is clearly "wrong", according to you, I want to
| know what is "right".
|
|[*] B has a slightly different opinion but can't observe
| directly the A - B path anyway.
|
Those are the three postulates of an illogical theory.
If the time for light to travel from A to B is t and the time
for light to travel to B from A is t' then t=t'.