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on Mon, 5 May 2008 02:13:17 -0700 (PDT)
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On May 5, 1:02 am, "Androcles" wrote:
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| On Apr 25, 9:52 am, John Kennaugh| wrote:

| Authors trying to sell Relativity to a student have a problem. They
| cannot go through a logical sequence of historical events - the history
| of relativity is quite frankly embarrassing. Neither can they appeal to
| common sense, relativity is of course counter intuitive.
|
| Right or wrong, the basis of SR is not counter intuitive to me, and
| I'm sure to many other people.

Why did Einstein say
the speed of light from A to B is c-v,
the speed of light from B to A is c+v,
the "time" each way is the same?

Ok, I don't have his paper in front of me. Give me the whole citation
(with context) and I'll explain it to you.

A translated version of the original is available at
http://www.fourmilab.ch/etexts/einstein/specrel/www/



| I guess it's a question of attitude.

Ah, so you guess. How very scientific. I calculate you are an idiot.

*plonk*

Nah nah. You don't understand gentlemanliness. John is a gentleman as
far as I can see. I wasn't talking about science but about
psychanalysis. In order to be understood by you, here's how I would
have phrased it: "I guess the reason you can't get this into your two-
cell reptilian brain is that you ****in' don't have the right
attitude."

I suggest that you be appointed as Her Majesty's full-time jester.
That would put your ineptia into use.


"Ineptia". Heh. Nice coinage, that.

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