Re: Gravitational time dilation HOAX along the years

On Sat, 21 Dec 2024 10:01:16 +0000, J. J. Lodder wrote:

LaurenceClarkCrossen <clzb93ynxj@att.net> wrote:
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On Tue, 17 Dec 2024 22:28:45 +0000, Ross Finlayson wrote:
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On 12/17/2024 11:50 AM, rhertz wrote:

EXCERPTS FROM EINSTEIN'S 1911 PAPER:  On the Influence of Gravitation on
the Propagation of Light

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Actually space-contraction after motion was arrived
at long before that, where what you're looking at
is ten different things mashed into a muddy wad,
and what you're looking at is what _you're_ seeing.

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Length contraction was one of the first proposed solutions for saving
the ether from the MMX, and was the first discarded as ad hoc nonsense,
and rightly so.

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Until Lorentz made it respectable,
by deriving it from his electron theory.
So it is usually called Lorentz contraction these days,
(or Lorentz-Fitzgerald)
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Jan

It's still ad hoc fiction because nothing can cause all lengths to
change in unison when all materials are different, least of all relative
motion.