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Quote by Austin0 I said that time dilation resulted from relative motion. Hi i was speaking on a much simpler level of causality. My own personal view is that the gamma function describes intrinsic attributes of spacetime. I am aware there are alternative concepts held by many that...

Quote by Austin0 I was neither being argumentative nor playing word games. So i would like to clarify this matter as it bothers me you would think that. Quote by Austin0 This was my original statement. It appears to me that to argue the contrary is necessarily equivalent to...

Quote by Austin0 So are you saying that differential aging is not a process? Doesn't the fundamental physical concept of process necessarily require an unspecified time interval?? Am i not correct in thinking that the basic mathematical description of processes are differential...

I am sorry if you interpreted my query as argumentative. it was out of pure interest in the subject and directly related to stevedaryl's post. Certainly I understand if you want to end it here or move it to another thread.

Hi I have a question. Could you explain what you meant when you said the constancy of c wrt inertial frames was natural and not simply a convention?

Quote by Austin0 "on an essential level"... in this context the word "an" inherently implies other essential levels,yes? Quote by Austin0 Your reaction to my quote below Quote by Austin0 was if you say I am inverting reality ,this would only be true if the inverse of...

How do they determine these effects within the frame? Measure relative clock rates and distance??

would you agree that on an essential level physics is a study of causality? Quote by Austin0 You will note that I was talking about causality here. Are you suggesting that The Doppler effect, including symmetry and reciprocity should considered as cause rather than effect simply...

Quote by Austin0 View Post This unambiguously inverts reality. The Doppler effects, symmetry and reciprocity are the end of the line. They are consequences of , not causes of time dilation. Yes there is a correlation between the asymmetry of the observations and the asymmetry of the...

Quote by Austin0 But the assumption of Doppler symmetry and reciprocity are clearly out of thin air and contradictory to classical physics i understand that the gamma function is derived from Maxwell's equations. ANd have already stated that the symmetry and reciprocity of...

Quote by Austin0 ... The constancy of propagation as I used it and in the 2nd P refers to the intrinsic property of the signal not referring to any specific quantification or measurement. Both you and Bondi implicitly apply this assumption when you attribute equal propagation between...

Quote by Austin0 Well I certainly agree on the subjectivity of ad hocness. This case for example: I would say that the first postulate was not at all ad hoc. It was founded on the observed reality of inertial frame equivalence regarding applied physics, mechanics etc. The only assumption...

Some comments on your and Bondi's demonstrations as I understand them. You propose that in a classical context (pre SR) with a single postulate of constant finite signal propagation independent of the source or any medium, that time dilation and differential aging can be derived as well as...

I just want to point out that all the valid points you make here are well known to ghwellsjr and have been completely covered by him in his analysis in previous threads.

I agree with you completely. The history of science is a co-evolution of inductive reasoning , derived from empirical data, and deductive inferences applied to those derived structures. Case in point. A certain classical cosmological model: The cosmos as a crystal sphere rotating the...