Re: Relativistic aberration

On Fri, 9 Aug 2024 12:41:23 +0000, Richard Hachel wrote:

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Le 09/08/2024 à 10:56, Python a écrit :

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Because I've actually read Poincaré, Einstein, et al.

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Gooood!
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But don't forget two things.
1. Read Hachel too
2. When you have assimilated correctly (I mean correctly),
and Poincaré,

What I've read of him strikes me as a bit of a stuffed shirt.

and Einstein, and Minkowski,

Minkowski spacetime is an INTERPRETATION of SR.  Einstein
was a bit put off by it, at least at first.
“spacetime is likely to be an approximate description of
something quite different.” – Steven Carlip

and Hachel,

Well, I've already pointed out where he has messed up.

don't forget to form your own personal and independent
opinion.
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R.H.

Well ...
 “People with opinions just go around bothering each
other.” -- Buddha
“All opinions are not equal. Some are a very great deal
more robust, sophisticated and well supported in logic

and argument than others.”  -- Douglas Adams

"You are not entitled to your opinion. You are entitled
to your informed opinion.  No one is entitled to be
ignorant." — Harlan Ellison
And an informed opinion means being informed by what
happens in reality, as well as what the mathematics
really means.  My "opinions" have shifted a LOT over
the years because I continue to learn.
“Education isn’t something you can finish.”
 – Isaac Asimov