On Apr 14, 2:16*pm, HW@....(Dr. Henri Wilson) wrote:

[snip whining]

YOUR analysis of sagnac using the ROTATING frame is trivial nonsense.
You are merely regarding the rotating apparatus viewed in the rotating frame as
being identical to the nonrotating apparatus in the inertial frame.

It is, Ralph.

What's the difference between a merry-go-round that is not rotating
and a rotating merry-go-round that has a frame co-rotating with it?


Henri Wilson. ASTC,BSc,DSc(T)www.users.bigpond.com/hewn/index.htm

....specialising in teaching physics to engineers and mathematicians....