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Altabeh said:I try to proceed step by step to clear up any misunderstanding you have here and until the first problem is not solved, I won't keep going!
I think you could be smarter than Paul Ehrenfest but never can be as pedantic as John Stachel is! Even if the disc is very large, the rim is still a part of the disc which means that we are out of the zone! The special relativity holds only for inertial Lorentzian systems which always deal with the objects in the state of non-constrained motions! In contrary, constrained motions never allow you to have a pure inertia in the sense that,
1) Supposing there is no strong gravity to hold your shoes on disc, at each point along the circumference you may have a different angular velocity as recorded by the observer at rest and thus you gain a non-zero centrifugal acceleration! This is because your shoes have to be glued to the disc to remain on the disc so you're a part of the solid disc! This fallacy was made in the Ehrenfest's thought experiment which later was noticed by Stachel!
2) In case there is gravity and you're standing on the disc by gravitational force, you're no longer attached to disc and its enternal tensions won't affect your position (it seems like at quantum mechanical scales, the position of particles of disc are changing under your shoes). But in this case Lorentz contraction happens and the inert observer understands that the body of observer on disc shrinks so that using a simple calculation the result obtained by Einstein appears to be true, again!
Up to this point I can say that your thought experiment is fallacious! Do you have anything to say, now?
AB
see my post # 80 and return back to me
i will continue discussing with you forever
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