Eugene Shubert
Nov26-04, 01:19 AM
<jabberwocky><div class="vbmenu_control"><a href="jabberwocky:;" onClick="newWindow=window.open('','usenetCode','toolbar=no, location=no,scrollbars=yes,resizable=yes,status=no ,width=650,height=400'); newWindow.document.write('<HTML><HEAD><TITLE>Usenet ASCII</TITLE></HEAD><BODY topmargin=0 leftmargin=0 BGCOLOR=#F1F1F1><table border=0 width=625><td bgcolor=midnightblue><font color=#F1F1F1>This Usenet message\'s original ASCII form: </font></td></tr><tr><td width=449><br><br><font face=courier><UL><PRE>A Magical Derivation of the Lorentz Transformation\n\nMagic may be defined as the unimaginable power to do some incredible\nthing, either by illusion or by legitimate means, which is beyond the\ncomprehension and belief of ordinary science.\n\nHere is a magic derivation of the Lorentz transformation that is so\nbaffling that many physicists have dogmatically declared that it is\nimpossible. Not all experts attest to the impossibility. The American\nJournal of Physics Editor, Jan Tobochnik, doesn\'t consider it\nremarkable at all. "I have read your manuscript and determined that\nit did not provide any particular insight into special relativity,\nassuming that it is even correct." It is "just another derivation."\n\nThis paper demonstrates that for any two inertial frames of reference\nin either a Galilean or Einsteinian universe, clocks can be reset so\nthat the modified transformation equations are just the usual Lorentz\ntransformation with a new arbitrary constant c. This trick is\nexploited to derive the Lorentz transformation from the Galilean\ntransformation.\n\nhttp://www.everythingimportant.org/relativity/special.pdf\n\nEugene Shubert\n\n</UL></PRE></font></td></tr></table></BODY><HTML>');"> <IMG SRC=/images/buttons/ip.gif BORDER=0 ALIGN=CENTER ALT="View this Usenet post in original ASCII form"> View this Usenet post in original ASCII form </a></div><P></jabberwocky>A Magical Derivation of the Lorentz Transformation
Magic may be defined as the unimaginable power to do some incredible
thing, either by illusion or by legitimate means, which is beyond the
comprehension and belief of ordinary science.
Here is a magic derivation of the Lorentz transformation that is so
baffling that many physicists have dogmatically declared that it is
impossible. Not all experts attest to the impossibility. The American
Journal of Physics Editor, Jan Tobochnik, doesn't consider it
remarkable at all. "I have read your manuscript and determined that
it did not provide any particular insight into special relativity,
assuming that it is even correct." It is "just another derivation."
This paper demonstrates that for any two inertial frames of reference
in either a Galilean or Einsteinian universe, clocks can be reset so
that the modified transformation equations are just the usual Lorentz
transformation with a new arbitrary constant c. This trick is
exploited to derive the Lorentz transformation from the Galilean
transformation.
http://www.everythingimportant.org/relativity/special.pdf
Eugene Shubert
Magic may be defined as the unimaginable power to do some incredible
thing, either by illusion or by legitimate means, which is beyond the
comprehension and belief of ordinary science.
Here is a magic derivation of the Lorentz transformation that is so
baffling that many physicists have dogmatically declared that it is
impossible. Not all experts attest to the impossibility. The American
Journal of Physics Editor, Jan Tobochnik, doesn't consider it
remarkable at all. "I have read your manuscript and determined that
it did not provide any particular insight into special relativity,
assuming that it is even correct." It is "just another derivation."
This paper demonstrates that for any two inertial frames of reference
in either a Galilean or Einsteinian universe, clocks can be reset so
that the modified transformation equations are just the usual Lorentz
transformation with a new arbitrary constant c. This trick is
exploited to derive the Lorentz transformation from the Galilean
transformation.
http://www.everythingimportant.org/relativity/special.pdf
Eugene Shubert