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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... -
:welcome: Okay so I'm going to give my usual disclaimer when I give academic advice which is that I'm a kid and definitely not...
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@James Hasty - here's why all attempts to measure the one way speed of light fail. This is a Minkowski diagram - it shows the position...
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ersmith replied to the thread How do people explore new ideas in physics?.@adam_snyder if you have a software development background, and believe you have found some improved ways to do computational general...
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There's really no way around the fact that the barrier to entry (being educated in physics) is required for practical reasons. There's...
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Just for the record, one way to synchronize two clocks would be for one clock to send out a signal at ##t_1 = 0## and when that signal...
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ersmith replied to the thread I Understanding the historical shift away from absolute simultaneity.Edited to add... I'll change it in the comment
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ersmith replied to the thread I Understanding the historical shift away from absolute simultaneity.Putting aside the history for a moment, the significance of universal simultaneity in Newtonian mechanics comes from there being no...
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ersmith replied to the thread I Understanding the historical shift away from absolute simultaneity.It should perhaps be noted that while LET can reproduce all of the predictions of SR, it does not naturally extend to a theory of...