Recent content by M8M

No. I do not understand any of special relativity.

Please forgive me for asking such ignorant questions. Perhaps you can take a moment to clarify the following? I think it is safe to state the following: The light sphere experiment is a thought experiment, only. There would be serious difficulties in physically conducting such an...

The constancy of the speed of light = c. Is it possible that light "adjusts' it speed based on "knowing" the relative velocities of every object around itself? Is this an alternative to time and space changing with speed? Anything as bizarre as invariant speed also seems to be yet another...

I think it is safe to say I can believe whatever I want and spout it on this forum as if it is gospel. I see 10 different contradictory opinions on here and they are all supposedly backed by fact. QED

Thanks for your response. There is something unsettling about Einsteins derivation. I am starting to think there is more than a grain of truth that the whole business was based on Voigts work...

I have been reading Lieber's book "The Einstein Theory of Relativity" which describes the derivation of the Lorentz Transformations: archive.org/details/einsteintheoryof032414mbp -- see pages 39-56 bartleby.com/173/a1.html The entire derivation makes no sense, whatsoever. Why is it...

"The gravitational force on a test-mass is a well defined concept in Newtonian mechanics, and in special circumstances in general relativity, but isn't well defined in general circumstances in general relativity" In studying relativity, I have noticed the following: In Einstein's...

pervect: Thanks for your reply. It is a bit of a concern that the Olson reference is listed as having a mere 2 citations. Clearly, it is more popular on the forums than in the scientific community. I wonder why? Further, if what you say is true this seems to be a glaring disconnect between...

Please consider the following scenario: Assume we have an object (o) at rest with a mass = m. Hence, we can calculate by general relativity the gravitational force (g) on this mass. Now, assume we remain stationary, at the origin, and a velocity (v) is imparted to the mass along the...