On 6/22/2025 12:31 AM, Python wrote:
> Le 21/06/2025 à 23:14,
clzb93ynxj@att.net (LaurenceClarkCrossen) a écrit :
>> On Sat, 21 Jun 2025 10:19:43 +0000, Mikko wrote:
>>
>>> On 2025-06-20 18:55:34 +0000, LaurenceClarkCrossen said:
>>>
>>>> On Fri, 20 Jun 2025 9:06:49 +0000, Mikko wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> On 2025-06-19 17:37:29 +0000, LaurenceClarkCrossen said:
>>>>>
>>>>>> Perplexity:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> "The First Postulate of Special Relativity
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Statement of the First Postulate
>>>>>>
>>>>>> The first postulate of special relativity, also known as the principle
>>>>>> of relativity, states:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> The laws of physics are the same in all inertial frames of
>>>>>> reference."
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> "truism
>>>>>> /ˈtrˌizƏm/ n. a statement that is obviously true and says nothing new
>>>>>> or interesting. —truistic/trˈistik/ adj." -Oxford American.
>>>>>
>>>>> The first postulate is not a truism. It is possible to imagine a world
>>>>> where it is not true and to believe that we actually live in a such
>>>>> world.
>>>
>>>> Your reply does not explain how it is not obviously true and nothing new
>>>> that wasn't already known long before Einstein.
>>>
>>> I did explain. And what I said was indeed known long before Einstein.
>>>
>>> If the first postulate were a truism nobody would ever have believed
>>> otherwise. But ancinet literature shows that the opposite belief was
>>> common.
>> So, Einstein added nothing new. How does that provide a basis for his
>> new theory? That he accepted the consensus view since Newton?
>
> Read paragraph I.1. in Einstein paper. This is the main point : the meaning of the time coordinate in an inertial frame.
Later, of course, the idiot discovered
that there is no inertial frame and his
absurd concept lost any meaning.
> some "universal time". Einstein asked for the time coordinate to be defined physically
Poor idiot has lost any connection to
the reality, of course.
> and proposed a procedure (the same one Poincaré proposed before) and he proved that such a procedure is in conflict with absolute simultaneity.
Of course, that alone makes the Holiest
Procedure practically worthless.
The first postulate is a truism.
Re: The first postulate is a truism.