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There are no authoritative theories in physics. We do not "belive" in any theory because someone said we should. We "belive" in them...

Of course. But you aren't doing anything except repeating "this doesn't make sense to me personally". You need to do some maths to...

Not here. The place for questioning and doubting authoritative theories is the professional scientific literature. PhyscisForums is an...

True. The advantage of the Sun rest frame is that it is the only one in which the speed of both ship and Earth is constant, so it is the...

That's correct. That's wrong. The ##v## in the Lorentz transformation is the relative velocity between the two frames.

Yes. That is correct. In fact it is one of the underlying assumptions of the Lorentz transform This is wrong. The fact that there is no...

You're right, I didn't get it before getting involved. Shame on me. It really seems to be grinding your gears though! Watch your blood...

I am not sure that is the de-facto standard. Here is a random google page: I had my mouse over "Tournament draw", so this is the same...

From what I can tell it is not a very high quality book on this specific topic. I think it might be suitable as a reference for someone...

Yes. The velocity in each direction is given by a standard normal distribution, so it has mean = 0 and standard deviation = 1.

Really? What is the specific direction in the figure in post 29?

This is not a very good explanation of what the variables mean. It is helpful if you write the expression that you want help with, as...

That isn’t correct, as we already explained above.

What are the variables? Again, this is not a good depiction, in my opinion. See above.

Minkowski spacetime and Minkowski coordinates are different things. The spacetime is what it is no matter what coordinates we use to...