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Old February 12th 08 posted to sci.physics.relativity
Androcles[_7_]
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Default On variant and invariant SRT


"Tom Roberts" wrote in message
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| Prometheus wrote:
| Which is the more accurate, or more useful interpretation?
| A. The metric of space is frame variant (local) in a way that makes the
| speed of EM radiation frame invariant.
| B. The speed of EM radiation is frame invariant thereby causing the
| metric of space to be frame variant (local).
|
| Neither. You use words inappropriately ("metric of space") for
| relativity -- it is the metric of spaceTIME which is relevant. In
| relativity, space has no metric that is independent of observer; all one
| can do is project the metric of spaceTIME onto a selected spatial
| 3-manifold.
|
|
| Tom Roberts

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