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Mass of atoms and nucleii from binding energy and KE...

What you describe is just an odd plasma. It is odd because it is completely ionized and because the two charge carriers are...

Let’s look more closely at what you call garbage. The front of a light wave leaves point O at t=t’=0 and going at arccos(v/c) ends at...

Not if you're going to do it this way. You keep refusing to do what several people now have told you to do: use the Lorentz...

Why wouldn’t they be exhaustive?

I'm not sure I'd go quite that far, but avoiding them is certainly an easy way to let Newtonian intuitions (and, often...

@DmitryS the recommendation to use the Lorentz transform has now come from four or five different people. You should probably take it...

In my opinion, you need to make use of the "Minkowski spacetime diagram", as @Ibix suggested in the older thread #10 in The Einstein...

The light clock thought experiment is really quite simple. 1) The light must travel further in one frame than the other. 2) The extra...

The usual light clock does not contain sources of light located on a flat inclined surface. Both mirrors are oriented horizontally. I...

The sensor (at time of reception) subtends a different angle at the emission point in the two frames, as I said. Remember that it is...

The conclusion that I mentioned was this: Your starting point is that the light clock is wrong. It is not. So that is a wrong starting...

Sorry, but as it stands, I see no point in doing this, because you have left out crucial things. Here is what I think you need to do to...

This is easy to address. Photon counting arguments are risky because not all states preserve photon number. A better approach is to...

Yes, that is completely correct. I think his confusion is about this part, which is why I focused on it, but I completely agree that...