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Thank you, this makes sense. -John

There is not a problem with causality in standard electromagnetism, as has been amply demonstrated in your previous threads. Thread closed.

Same there. Different authors will have different meanings for what charts they consider to be inertial. For example, some will...

I think that the term “inertial frame” means what the author using the term defines it to mean. There are variations in the literature.

I wonder if part of the lack of clarity is from the difference between ground heat radiating upwards and the re-radiation in all...

Thought of an easy way to do it. Change the mirror for an absorber. When it is struck by the light, it absorbs it and gains energy...

They are not. I strongly suggest you use the Lorentz transforms to express the first equation in terms of primed quantities. You will...

Note that the two halves of this sentence do not say the same thing. The last half says you cannot detect absolute motion. But the first...

It's not symerical, because the light source is at rest in one frame, but not the other. Motion relative to some random light source...

What else would be involved? No, they don't. The source can only be motionless with respect to one of them. Until you fix this...

Without the GHGs, radiation would pass both ways through the atmosphere with relatively little interaction (absorption or radiation and...

Also, note that @Ibix said that the point is motionless, not that the source is motionless when it is at that point.

No, I don't know the mechanism. But anyway, this is a red herring. The radiation of these molecules is not a major factor here, as...

The atmosphere is in contact with three other thermal reservoirs, the earth, the sun, and space. Earth: heat transfer is by...

Which bit of the Earth are you referring to? It's a thick sandwich of gas and solids (water too!) Go back to a greenhouse; which is...