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I guess I don't get it. I can write equivalent versions of your two phrases, placing "if" in the other one ... “If the rocketship is...

We're here to discuss different opinions, not to argue from authority. I apologize if I came off as doing the latter.

Not at all. I'm offering an opinion, not a mandate. I didn't mean to imply that all students are left with these misconceptions, or...

Well, the first edition of the book where I took the "composition" from was published in 1990. I've got a later copy of it on my...

The only bending over backwards is when uttering the phrase "action-reaction" instead of "Third-Law pair of forces". The former is a...

It also invokes the notion that the action is the cause of the reaction, elevating the status of the action above that of the reaction...

What is the reason you are studying this paper? Are you trying to understand the physics? Or are you trying to understand the physics...

Could be both!

I thought that was a camel not a donkey. :oldsmile:

Yes. But if you have two straight parallel wires carrying current in opposite directions, they will repel. This is probably what the...

But there is no way to distinguish what you are calling "in reality" from what is observed in other frames because there's no way to...

In both scenarios there are two events. Just because the two events are simultaneous in one of the frames doesn't make them the same...

Continuous manned presence on ISS has 25 year anniversary Nov 2, so what a wonderful way these guys have found to celebrate...

What lies at the heart of this all-to-familiar approach is that the superposition principle applies to forces. In other words each force...

No, it's wrong. But explaining it repeatedly seems to have no effect. I told you to stop trying to generalize comments you read and...