Re: the notion of counter-intuitiveness in relativistic physics

On Wed, 7 Aug 2024 21:28:27 +0000, Richard Hachel wrote:

Le 07/08/2024 à 22:22, nospam@de-ster.demon.nl (J. J. Lodder) a écrit :

Richard Hachel <r.hachel@jesauspu.fr> wrote:
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Le 07/08/2024 à 16:25, hitlong@yahoo.com (gharnagel) a écrit :

On Wed, 7 Aug 2024 13:18:33 +0000, Richard Hachel wrote:

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Le 07/08/2024 à 12:09, film.art@gmail.com (JanPB) a écrit :

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Your biggest problem at this time is that you cannot understand the
explanations given to you.

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I laughed.
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R.H.

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Hmm, doesn't look like a laugh.  Maybe an OMG!  Meaning, you just
realized that Jan is right.  Well, maybe a laugh would be appropriate,
too, meaning "how could I have been so wrong!"
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You come up with your D'=D.sqrt[(1+Vo/c)/(1-Vo/c)], which isn't length
contraction but Doppler shift, which is dependent on the sign of your
Vo.  LC is NOT so dependent.  It would be a VERY strange universe if
it were.

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You say: "it's a Doppler shift".
And for sqrt(1-Vo?/c?)?
Isn't it a Doppler shift?
Yes, it's also a Doppler shift.
This is what Hachel calls the "internal Doppler effect".
Relativists call it the transverse Doppler effect, but the term is
neither
fair nor pretty.

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It was reasonable and fair nomenclature at the time.
People didn't have relativity in order,
and they discussed the motion of electrons in terms of variable masses.
They discovered that the 'longitudinal mass' and the 'transverse mass'
of the electron were different.
It seemed quite reasonable at the time to extend the notion to light,
because the terminology was already current,
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Jan

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The big problem with relativity is the almost complete absence of clear
concepts.
There is no need to talk about transverse mass, longitudinal mass, and
other such joys.
You do like Hachel, you keep it simple, and, like Hercule Poirot, you
turn
on your neurons.
"Mass is a relativistic invariant".
Mass is what it is, like a postage stamp is a postage stamp.
All the bullshit of the relativists only obscures human knowledge,
deflects it, and does not take it further.

Give it up, Richard. What you post here and on other threads has no
relation to anything. You are debating exclusively the chimeras
of your imagination, your mind here is like a hall of mirrors, full
of endless reflections of self-made nonsense.

I will never understand all this madness.

Exactly. You are running in circles constantly and nothing for
you makes sense in this domain. That's fine. Not everyone has to
be a physicist. I am not a virtuoso pianist and I can live with
that awareness extremely comfortably and well.

Human beings are both idiots and pedants.

No, it's you.
Notice I didn't say "the problem is you" because it's not a problem
to have no talent for something in particular. The only time it becomes
an emotional problem is when a person somehow falls into the trap of
convincing oneself that it's absolutely essential to "work with" the
domain one cannot possibly succeed in..
--
Jan