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You have forgotten the relativity of simultaneity, which is less popularised than length contraction and time dilation, but probably...

##\kappa## is the thing that controls how slanted the lines in my second diagram are, IIRC.

This is the OWSOL convention used in Anderson, R.; Vetharaniam, I.; Stedman, G. E. (1998), "Conventionality of synchronisation, gauge...

I suggest that is not unique! That's just normal. In what way could that possibly be a unique characteristic of an experiment?

You are correct that in a closed cycle (e.g., accelerating and then decelerating a particle in an accelerator), the effects cancel out...

Greg will have to make that choice. I was just asking. As far as I can tell, government sites in the US will be required to implement...

I just explained in a DM how math proofs must be read. I think it is a nice, though very simple example of why it is a big deal to...

A little off topic, but since I alluded to Faraday's long apprenticeship with Sir Humphrey Davy that acted as bridge from self teaching...

Damn it, I did not read this post, just the first one. Ok so my crankometer just went off a little. Comparing yourself to Faraday and...

Sure. Physics has that pesky 'reality' thing above all, what makes a difference: those who did not prove beforehand to be able to walk...

History says that Oliver Heaviside was self taught and did highly original and important work. But that was in the 19th century...

However he also had been through the most rigorous physics program available at the the time, had completed his PhD, was a regular...

What do you mean by refactoring? What journals are the papers you have read published in?

Yes, but this isn't new. Fermat, Kafka, Galois have all become famous after their deaths as others published what they had left. But how...

And George Green was a miller from Nottingham who did ground-breaking work in mathematical physics in the early 1800's. That was 1800...