Top Document: Einstein (1905) Absurdities Previous Document: 3. The light direction absurdity. Next Document: 5. The amazing transverse gamma absurdity. See reader questions & answers on this topic! - Help others by sharing your knowledge Perhaps the most marvelous thing about Einstein's Special Relativity derivation is the math he used to get from his tau function in t and x' to his tau=f(t,x) transform. [We let his a=phi(v)=1, as he concludes later.] [1] tau = (t-vx'/(cc-vv)). [2] tau = (t-vx/cc)/sqrt(1-(v/c)^2). First of all, to get to [2], we certainly have to rid [1] of x'. x'=x-vt. [3] tau = (t-v(x-vt)/(cc-vv)) = (tcc-tvv-vx-vvt)/(cc-vv) = (tcc - vx)/(cc-vv) Now, divide numerator and denominator on the right by cc: [4] tau = (t-vx/cc)/(1-vv/cc). There's only one way to get [2] from [4]. Let tau<>tau, a logical absurdity in this situation; Einstein has proceeded far beyond tau the unknown function. The only unknown is a, which he later says is phi(v)=1. And if it is legal to get [2] by multiplying only one side by sqrt(1-vv/cc), then it is also correct to multiply only one side by (1-vv/cc), and get the galilean transform. Or to multiply one side by pi and get "t and -vx/cc are really circle diameters" transforms. [You know, the circumference of a circle is Pi*diameter?] But in all cases - both the absurd Einsteinian and Pi transforms - it is not legal to treat only one side of an equation in a non-identity fashion. The left side of the tau function would not be tau, but gamma*tau or Pi*tau. The appearance of gamma is just as magically marvelous in the X' transform (we used X' for the moving system x value coordinate, remember?): X' = ccx'/(cc-vv). = (ccx-ccvt)/(cc-vv) = (x-vt)/(1-vv/cc). Not X' = (x-vt)/sqrt(1-vv/cc). User Contributions:Top Document: Einstein (1905) Absurdities Previous Document: 3. The light direction absurdity. Next Document: 5. The amazing transverse gamma absurdity. Single Page [ Usenet FAQs | Web FAQs | Documents | RFC Index ] Send corrections/additions to the FAQ Maintainer: Thnktank@concentric.net (Eleaticus)
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