From: Darwin123 on
On May 28, 7:29 pm, va...(a)icmf.inf.cu wrote:
> On 27 mayo, 12:48, PD <thedraperfam...(a)gmail.com> wrote:
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> > On May 26, 3:49 pm, va...(a)icmf.inf.cu wrote:
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> > > On 25 mayo, 10:46, PD <thedraperfam...(a)gmail.com> wrote:
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> > > > On May 25, 10:19 am, va...(a)icmf.inf.cu wrote:
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> > > > > On 24 mayo, 07:27, PD <thedraperfam...(a)gmail.com> wrote:
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> > > > > > On May 24, 6:13 am, va...(a)icmf.inf.cu wrote:
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> > > > > > > On 21 mayo, 10:22, PD <thedraperfam...(a)gmail.com> wrote:
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> > > > > > > > On May 21, 6:27 am, va...(a)icmf.inf.cu wrote:
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> > > > > > > > > On 20 mayo, 13:09, PD <thedraperfam...(a)gmail.com> wrote:
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> > > > > > > > > > On May 20, 8:19 am, va...(a)icmf.inf.cu wrote:
>
> You are accusing then 1684 Newton to make a rather empty statement
> (without any valid argument to support it). The concept of the non-
> existence of a privileged frame is developed precisely by 1905
> Einstein, and the translation of something to the past of its
> developing epoch is the more dangerous mistake that can be done when
> analysing an old text (but unfortunately a very common one, because it
> is not an easy task at all to consider out of our mind what it is
> already there when reading the old text, and the greater the
> knowledge, the greater the possibility to fall in mistake).
>
I am not accusing Newton of making a rather empty statement.
Newton's "absolute frame" is not privileged any more than Einstein's
"stationary frame". In both cases, one frame is selected where the
laws of mechanics (Newton's Principia) are strictly valid. In both
cases, there are an infinite number of frames that also satisfy the
condition that Principia holds true. However, to first order neither
the absolute frame nor the stationary frame are unique in satisfying
the rules of Principia.
The force laws studied by Newton and his contemporaries are
Galilean invariant. I don't know when the concept of Galilean
invariance first arose. However, suppose we have a set of measuring
instruments that are at rest with respect to the absolute frame. One
can construct another set of instruments using a Galilean
transformation that also satisfies the condition that Principia holds
true. So if Newton had constructed a "primed" frame using Galilean
invariants, he could have performed all his calculations from the POV
of this primed frame and still gotten equivalent results. However,
this was not necessary for the calculations that he demonstrated in
Principia.
I have no references as to the use of the Galilean transformation
before Einstein. I will search for some. Apparently, Newton never
describes the Galilean transformation. Even if Newton had thought of
the Galilean transformation, they would have been anticlimatic. The
main thing he does with Principia is calculate planetary orbits. For
calculating planetary orbits, one absolute space was enough. Even if
he invented the Galilean transformation, it was tangential to the main
points of Principia. Newton was introducing the world to physics.
Mathematical embellishments would only have confused the issues at
that point.
Light does not obey the laws stated in Principia. Certain people
on the forum will say that light does somehow obey Principia, but that
is not true. We can argue the point experiment by experiment, but in
summation the laws of Principia don't apply to light. The laws of
optics are not Galilean invariant. Einstein intentionally searched for
a transformation that would construct a second frame where both
Principia and the Laws of Optics would apply to first order.
To satisfy both Principia and the Laws of optics, Einstein
developed the Lorentz transformation. Of course, the Lorentz
transformation had been developed first by Lorentz. Lorentz developed
these equations for a slightly different reasons. Lorentz was seems to
have been concerned about a slight inconsistency between Principia and
the force laws of electrodynamics.
I think that characterizes the difference in approach between
Einstein and Lorentz. Einstein was concerned primarily with optics,
and Lorentz was concerned with electromagnetic force laws.
Einstein got full credit in the public eye for special
relativity after he developed general relativity. The argument of "who
deserves credit" for special relativity is interesting, but
unimportant for the discussion at hand. I will not argue for either,
as I am in awe of both of them |:-)
The idea of Galilean transformation was already in the air soon
after Newton published Principia. What Lorentz and Einstein found was
that the Laws of the universe are invariant to a different
transformation, which is now called the Lorentz transformation.
The invariance of physical law to the Lorentz transformation
turns out to have consequences beyond both optics and the
electrodynamic force laws. Invariance to the Lorentz transformation
apparently extends beyond optics and electrodynamics. The Lorentz
invariance even applies to systems where Principia is totally invalid,
such as quantum mechanical systems.
In any case, the "inertial frame" was fully described without
using the exact phrase in Einstein's 1905 paper. He describes a
stationary frame, which is fully equivalent to the absolute frame
described by Newton. He shows that other frames satisfy the same
conditions as the stationary frame. He refers to them as the "primed
coordinates," but it is the same concept as inertial frame.
Not all frames are inertial frames in the sense that Einstein
defined inertial frames. If an external force is applied to the
instruments in an inertial frame, the frame will accelerate. Then, the
laws of Principia don't apply in this frame. This was as true for the
universe described by Newton as it is for the universe as described by
Einstein. However, an accelerated frame can approximate an inertial
frame given certain conditions. While one can never totally insulate
instruments from external forces, there are conditions where these
external forces are negligible. Thus, the center of mass of the earth
is sufficiently close to being an inertial frame for certain
experiments, including the GPS satellites.
However, the earth centered system is not an absolute frame. Why
should the earth be any more inertial than any other planet or star in
the galaxy?
I just am picking a small nit. I agree that the frame centered on
the center of mass of the earth is a sufficiently close to being an
inertial frame for most purposes. The earth centered frame may not be
an ideal inertial frame, but it is for the purposes of current
technology an inertial frame.
From: Androcles on

"Darwin123" <drosen0000(a)yahoo.com> wrote in message
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On May 28, 7:29 pm, va...(a)icmf.inf.cu wrote:
> On 27 mayo, 12:48, PD <thedraperfam...(a)gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > On May 26, 3:49 pm, va...(a)icmf.inf.cu wrote:
>
> > > On 25 mayo, 10:46, PD <thedraperfam...(a)gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > > > On May 25, 10:19 am, va...(a)icmf.inf.cu wrote:
>
> > > > > On 24 mayo, 07:27, PD <thedraperfam...(a)gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > > > > > On May 24, 6:13 am, va...(a)icmf.inf.cu wrote:
>
> > > > > > > On 21 mayo, 10:22, PD <thedraperfam...(a)gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > > > > > > > On May 21, 6:27 am, va...(a)icmf.inf.cu wrote:
>
> > > > > > > > > On 20 mayo, 13:09, PD <thedraperfam...(a)gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > > > > > > > > > On May 20, 8:19 am, va...(a)icmf.inf.cu wrote:
>
> You are accusing then 1684 Newton to make a rather empty statement
> (without any valid argument to support it). The concept of the non-
> existence of a privileged frame is developed precisely by 1905
> Einstein, and the translation of something to the past of its
> developing epoch is the more dangerous mistake that can be done when
> analysing an old text (but unfortunately a very common one, because it
> is not an easy task at all to consider out of our mind what it is
> already there when reading the old text, and the greater the
> knowledge, the greater the possibility to fall in mistake).
>
I am not accusing Newton of making a rather empty statement.
Newton's "absolute frame" is not privileged any more than Einstein's
"stationary frame".
==================================================
" Hitherto I have laid down the definitions of such words as are less known,
and explained the sense in which I would have them to be understood in the
following discourse. I do not define time, space, place and motion, as being
well known to all. Only I must observe, that the vulgar conceive those
quantities under no other notions but from the relation they bear to
sensible objects. And thence arise certain prejudices, for the removing of
which, it will be convenient to distinguish them into absolute and relative,
true and apparent, mathematical and common.
Absolute space, in its own nature, without regard to anything external,
remains always similar and immovable. Relative space is some movable
dimension or measure of the absolute spaces; which our senses determine by
its position to bodies; and which is vulgarly taken for immovable space;
such is the dimension of a subterraneaneous, an �real, or celestial space,
determined by its position in respect of the earth. Absolute and relative
space, are the same in figure and magnitude; but they do not remain always
numerically the same. For if the earth, for instance, moves, a space of our
air, which relatively and in respect of the earth remains always the same,
will at one time be one part of the absolute space into which the air
passes; at another time it will be another part of the same, and so,
absolutely understood, it will be perpetually mutable." --Newton.

"The introduction of a ``luminiferous ether'' will prove to be superfluous
inasmuch as the view here to be developed will not require an ``absolutely
stationary space'' provided with special properties, BUT ...
"It is essential to have time defined by means of stationary clocks in the
stationary system, and the time now defined being appropriate to the
stationary system we call it ``the time of the stationary system.'' --
Einstein.



From: Darwin123 on
On May 29, 12:25 pm, "Androcles" <Headmas...(a)Hogwarts.physics_z>
wrote:
> "Darwin123" <drosen0...(a)yahoo.com> wrote in message

>     I am not accusing Newton of making a rather empty statement.
> Newton's "absolute frame" is not privileged any more than Einstein's
> "stationary frame".

Androcles quoting Einstein
> ==================================================
.....<Lots of words Androcles didn't understand. One reference to
aether, one of Androcles favorite subjects.
> "The introduction of a ``luminiferous ether'' will prove to be superfluous
> inasmuch as the view here to be developed will not require an ``absolutely
> stationary space'' provided with special properties, BUT ...
> "It is essential to have time defined by means of stationary clocks in the
> stationary system, and the time now defined being appropriate to the
> stationary system we call it ``the time of the stationary system.'' --  
> Einstein.

The aether was just as superfluous in Newton's universe as it
is in Einstein's universe. Newton thought light acted like a particle,
rather than like a wave. To be fair, Newton either didn't know or
didn't understand about the experiments which showed light acted like
a wave. According to Newton, all particles (including light
corpusules) acted under the laws described in Principia. Principia,
which were the "laws of mechanics," did not describe an aether.
Absolute space was completely different from the aether. The
aether does not obey the laws of Principia, even in the absolute space
reference frame. The laws of the universe, in Principia, are Galilean
invariant. The aether is not Galilean invariant. In Newton's universe,
light traveled in absolute space according to Principia. One can
construct another coordinate system where Principia applied merely by
applying a Galilean transform. The aether was completely unnecessary
if light really consisted of corpusules.
Scientists learned more about light, electricity and magnetism
after Newton died. Principia clearly did not apply to electric and
magnetic forces. The experiments by Faraday, Marconi and Hertz clearly
showed that electricity and magnetism did not obey Principia.
Principia clearly did not apply to light. Light was not comprised of
light corpusules, as Newton imagined them. Although Principia seemed
to apply to atoms and electrons, it did not apply to light waves.
Maxwell's equations seemed to apply to light, electricity, and
magnetism.
Einstein proposed that there was at least one stationary frame
where both Principia applied to atoms and electrons, while Maxwell's
equations applied to light, electric fields, and magnetic fields. With
regards to atoms and electrons, the aether is obviously superfluous.
Even Newton would have agreed with that, so long as the discussion was
restricted to atoms and electrons. Einstein's extension is that the
aether is even superfluous with regards to electric and magnetic
fields. The laws of Principia, and Maxwell's equations, always apply
in at least one stationary frame.
The conditions that the laws of mechanics applies in the
stationary frame for atoms and electrons is actually very restrictive.
Not every frame can be a stationary frame. This idea some people have
that ALL frames can be stationary is nonsense, even according to
Einstein's theory in 1905. However, there are an infinite number of
different frames in which the laws of Principia also apply.
Your quotation from Einstein does not support any of your
conclusions. The aether is not equivalent to absolute space. The
aether is inconsistent with the idea of absolute space, as described
by Newton.
The idea of invariance is fundamental to both the ideas of Newton
and the ideas of Einstein. The laws of Principia are invariant to
Galilean transformations. The laws of SR are invariant to the Lorentz
transformation. The laws of GR are invariant to the covariant
transformation. The transformations are fundamental, while the aether
is superfluous.
Newton may disagree with Einstein at many interesting points, but
he would agree on one issue. The luminiferous aether is superfluous.
Both Newton and Einstein found the aether unnecessary and misleading
in terms of the systems that they studied.
From: valls on
On 27 mayo, 12:58, PD <thedraperfam...(a)gmail.com> wrote:
> On May 26, 3:49 pm, va...(a)icmf.inf.cu wrote:
>
>
>
>
>
> > On 25 mayo, 10:46, PD <thedraperfam...(a)gmail.com> wrote:> On May 25, 10:19 am, va...(a)icmf.inf.cu wrote:
>
> > > The frames you mentioned are not inertial. Circularly moving bodies
> > > are not in inertial motion.
>
> > Let us revise what kind of reference frames are managing 1905
> > Einstein. At the beginning of paragraph 1 (30Jun1905 paper) we can
> > read:
> > [Let us take a system of co-ordinates in which the equations of
> > Newtonian mechanics hold good.]
> > That type of system is denoted by 1905 Einstein “stationary system”..
> > By the way, in all his 1905 text he not use the word “inertial”, but
> > taking into account that the equations of Newtonian mechanics hold
> > good (and then also all its laws, including the first), I consider
> > safe to interpret that “stationary system” is what today is named
> > “inertial frame”. But in all 1905 text we don’t find any mention at
> > all about a possible movement of the stationary system, and much less
> > specifying that it must be with uniform velocity following a straight
> > line.
>
> Again, it is dangerous to read a paper in isolation.
>
I am NOT reading the paper in isolation at all. I am taking into
account ALL its past well separated from ALL its future. The past for
use in its interpretation, and the future for NOT use in it, being
that last part the very dangerous mistake if not done.
> In circularly moving reference frames, the Newtonian laws of motion do
> not hold. There are acceleration terms that do not arise as the result
> of any force that would be consistent with Newton's 3rd law. The
> Coriolis effect is an excellent example.
>
We are in total agreement that an accelerated entity is NOT an
inertial frame that you can use to refer the moving of bodies in its
exterior. But that entity CAN be considered an inertial frame for its
interior, but only if the acceleration that the external world
provokes in it as a whole is (sufficiently approximate) the same in
all its internal component bodies (and then not been noted by them at
all). That is the case, for example, with the today very successfully
GPS ECI (the same used by 1905 Einstein at the end of paragraph 4 in
his 30June1905 paper). For internal use, the ECI centre of mass can be
considered at rest, with the external word (principally the Moon and
the Sun) provoking in it an almost same acceleration in all its
internal component bodies (Earth and GPS clocks, in satellites or at
ground, the ECI body set). Externally, the whole ECI as a component
part of the Solar System is moving circularly (really in a very much
complex trajectory if you take into account the presence of the Moon).
You can use the ECI ONLY with bodies taking into account when
determining the centre of mass. The external use of ANY centre of mass
inertial frame to describe the movement of a body that it is not in
its body set implies (as you correctly say) a violation of Newton’s
laws (try to describe the Sun’s trajectory in the ECI!). The ECI (as
any other centre of mass system) can be inertial only for its
interior, NOT for its exterior.
> > At the end of paragraph 4 in the 30Jun1905 paper, we find as the
> > stationary system what today is denoted GPS ECI, the real Earth
> > rotating in the inertial frame determined by itself with its centre of
> > mass at rest (as all the rotating axis, including the poles). We find
> > there also as the moving system a clock at the equator moving in a
> > CIRCULAR path.
>
> Yes, indeed, and there was a considerable amount of controversy about
> whether this construction should be considered movement in an inertial
> frame. It was only later that Einstein treated it better.
>
(Maintain for the moment the later Einstein out, as we are considering
here only the 1905 one). By sure 1905 Einstein’s “moving system” can’t
be consider at all in general as an inertial frame. See the last part
of paragraph 4 where he refers to a clock moving in a continuous
curved line (here is where he introduced at the end the rotating Earth
with clocks at a pole and at the equator). Even if he refers here only
to a constant speed circular movement, the today experimental evidence
of GPS seem to support that ANY movement of the “moving system” can be
described with 1905 Einstein formulas considering any velocity as an
instantaneous uniform one using the differential and integral calculus
procedures. The “moving system” can be considered an inertial frame
for its interior only under the equal acceleration condition that I
refer in my last comment.
>
>
> > Taking into account that in a 1905R (without absolute
> > space and time) all inertial frames must be derived from the bodies
> > themselves, the stationary system must be then some CM inertial frame,
> > being the moving system any of its component bodies that can be moving
> > in any way compatible with Newton’s laws. All this is supported with
> > the huge GPS ECI experimental evidence. Note that the Solar System
> > (SS) can be considered at rest as a whole entity (the more exact
> > inertial frame known by men) for internal affairs, but moving not in
> > the inertial way as a component of the Galaxy. The Earth, an SS
> > component, is in a similar situation. Considered at rest for internal
> > affairs (the GPS very successful function!), but moving not in the
> > inertial way as a part of SS. All seem to indicate that without
> > absolute space and time, what characterize the inertial attribute of a
> > system as a whole is only the rest (v=0) of its CM, not the any
> > uniform velocity v movement (that seem to belong only to the Newtonian
> > infinite empty inertial frames already put out in 1905 Relativity). As
> > the title of this thread states, “according to 1905 Relativity, a
> > single material point (modelling an inertial frame) must be always at
> > rest”. Because already it is not present the absolute space and time
> > permitting it to move with any uniform v velocity.

RVHG (Rafael Valls Hidalgo-Gato)
From: valls on
On 28 mayo, 12:32, PD <thedraperfam...(a)gmail.com> wrote:
> On May 28, 11:06 am, va...(a)icmf.inf.cu wrote:
>
>
>
>
>
> > On 28 mayo, 09:01, PD <thedraperfam...(a)gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > > On May 28, 8:55 am, va...(a)icmf.inf.cu wrote:
>
> > > > On 27 mayo, 10:52, harald <h...(a)swissonline.ch> wrote:
>
> > > > > On May 24, 12:47 pm, va...(a)icmf.inf.cu wrote:> On 21 mayo, 04:35, harald <h...(a)swissonline.ch> wrote:
>
> > > > > [..]
>
> > > > > > > > By the way, we are considering here only 1905 Relativity (and
> > > > > > > > I was born long after that epoch). 1905 Einstein can support only 1905
> > > > > > > > Relativity.
>
> > > > > > > Exactly, that is what I referred to. His purpose was to show how:
>
> > > > > > > "the same laws of electrodynamics and optics will be valid for all
> > > > > > > frames of reference for which the equations of mechanics hold good"
>
> > > > > > > with the clarification:
>
> > > > > > > "In order to render our presentation more precise and to distinguish
> > > > > > > this system of co-ordinates *verbally* from others which will be
> > > > > > > introduced hereafter, we call it the ``stationary system.'' "
>
> > > > > > And the “stationary system” is for 1905 Einstein a one in which the
> > > > > > equations of Newtonian mechanics hold good and a time can be
> > > > > > determined applying his clock synchronization procedure, i.e.,
> > > > > > according to our previous considerations, a centre of  mass inertial
> > > > > > frame corresponding to a body set with at least two bodies.> That is at odds with your statement that:
>
> > > > > > > > > > "the “moving system” must be always part
> > > > > > > > > > of the “stationary system”, and a “stationary system” moving with
> > > > > > > > > > respect to a “moving system” at rest is nothing more that a huge
> > > > > > > > > > absurd [..].
>
> > > > > > What contradiction do you find between that statement and 1905
> > > > > > Einstein?
>
> > > > > In SRT we are free to choose which Newtonian coordinate system we call
> > > > > "moving" and which one "stationary"; as they are equally valid for the
> > > > > laws of physics, not one of the two is preferred. The only way in
> > > > > which "mass" is relevant is that it is convenient to choose a high
> > > > > mass object as approximation for a Newtonian reference system. That is
> > > > > at odds with your introduction of "body sets" and your preference for
> > > > > calling certain "centre of mass" systems "stationary" and not
> > > > > "moving". And here below you do it again...
>
> > > > We are not addressing here SR theory, but 1905R one. That they are
> > > > different theories can be checked very easily.
>
> > > No, they are not. They are different presentations of growing
> > > sophistication of the SAME theory.
>
> > Comment then my arguments showing why they are different theories.
> > Explain to me then why being Gravity out of the scope of SR, in the
> > 1905R we find as an example the rotating Earth as the stationary
> > system and a clock at the equator as the moving system gravitational
> > centripetal accelereted with a CIRCULAR trajectory! Being the Earth
> > also gravitational centripetal accelerated by the Sun, explain to me
> > what kind of inertial systems are managing 1905 Einstein with Gravity
> > present. Where are the movements with uniform linear velocities
> > characteristic of inertial frames in SR?
> > Can you consider the (moving) clock at the equator at rest, with the
> > clock (at rest in the pole) moving with respect to it? Are not all
> > inertial frames equivalent ones? Are not all of them equivalent to
> > describe our Universe? Try to describe the Sun's trajectory in the GPS
> > ECI frame, the same one that is the stationary system in the 1905R
> > example. When you showed me the Sun's trajectory in the ECI I will
> > trust in you when saying that SR and 1905R are the same theory. If you
> > can't do it, you must explain me in detail why it is imposible to
> > describe the Sun's trajectory in the ECI without violating the
> > Newton's laws that define an stationary system in 1905R.
>
> > RVHG (Rafael Valls Hidalgo-Gato)
>
> Indeed, and again this points to the problem of reading papers in
> isolation, and also considering a seminal paper to be the complete
> presentation of a theory. The "1905R" paper you mention is NOT a
> complete explication of special relativity, let alone relativity. It
> is the FIRST explication of special relativity, and as such it has a
> number of hanging threads, unfinished business, only partly explicated
> answers, superficially understood and explained concepts, and so on.
>
(In other post I answered you already about me reading a paper “in
isolation”, being the true that I am taking into account ALL its past
and ALL its future, the past for using in the interpretation, and the
future for NOT using in it).
We are in agreement about that hardly the first paper about any thing
can be already the complete presentation of a theory. Note for example
with what emphasis 1905 Einstein start talking about the material
character of the frames, identifying system of coordinates with rigid
bodies, describing Cartesian coordinates as a system of 3 rigid
material lines, etc. And taking into account that a single material
point is already an entity with mass in the Newtonian mechanics (that
hold good by definition in any 1905 Einstein “stationary system”), we
can understand that the presence of mass is essential in the new
theory. Remember that 1905 Einstein takes out the privileged absolute
frame (and with it all the derived moving with all possible velocities
frames), remaining only the material massive bodies themselves to
determine any inertial frame. Even then, 1905 Einstein leave this
point without any further theoretical development, what I consider a
weak point in the theory. Fortunately, he put our beloved massive
rotating Earth as the unique real example in all his text, also
fortunately supported by the huge experimental evidence of today GPS,
permitting us to have a secure reference point to help us when
deciding which are the “hanging threads, unfinished business, only
partly explicated
answers, superficially understood and explained concepts, and so on”
that must be corrected in his theory first imperfect version.

I know that 1907 Minkowski introduces substantial changes in the
theory considering infinite completely equivalent inertial frames,
without any relation at all with massive bodies. For that reason, I
consider that step a re-introduction of the infinite inertial frames
present in the previous Newtonian view, even if now without the
privileged absolute one and a new very strong relationship between
space and time. To take out the imaginary absolute frame and maintain
the also imaginary infinite derived ones (similar to disappearing the
first floor of a building and maintaining in use all the derived ones
over it) doesn’t seem to me an acceptable logic step. But what really
makes me to decide that the 1907 Minkowski view must not be considered
the unique possible alternative, is the presence in it of the total
equivalence between all the imaginary infinite frames, erasing all
difference between “stationary system” and “moving system”, with the
totally absurd implication (already experimentally proved false with
the GPS function) that the clock at the pole (the unique
experimentally confirmed rest one) is moving with respect to a rest
clock at the equator (the unique experimentally confirmed moving one).
Any number of experiments can’t prove true a theory, but a single one
can prove false one. Fortunately, nobody can take out from history the
real rotating Earth example (already proved experimentally correct)
from the 1905 text.
To convince us that “stationary system” and “moving system” are NOT
the same concept in 1905 Relativity, it is sufficient to read the
second postulate version that appears at the beginning of paragraph 2:
“2. Any ray of light moves in the “stationary” system of co-ordinates
with the determined velocity c, whether the ray be emitted by a
stationary or by a moving body. Hence…”
As you see, something so essential as a postulate refers only to
“stationary” frames, putting in evidence the non-equivalent character
between “stationary” and “moving” frames in 1905 Relativity. Other
strong evidence supporting the difference between “stationary” and
“moving” is in the title (and also content, of course) of paragraph 3,
where you can see that the transformation of coordinates and times is
only FROM the “stationary” TO the “moving” system.

> For example, the 1905R paper makes a statement about the laws of
> physics in *inertial* reference frames, which had a very well
> understood meaning in physics well before this paper, and was not
> replaced in meaning by this paper. However, as you noted, Einstein
> attempted to bend this statement to apply the principle to a
> NONinertial frame, that inhabited by a clock at the Earth's equator.
> This iffy application was noted by people working on relativity after
> this paper, including Einstein himself, and there were a couple of
> outcomes from this specific example. One was the more complete
> calculation of the effect per general relativity. Another was the
> discovery that accelerating reference frames could be analyzed with
> care using special relativity. Both these results came well after the
> 1905R paper, but are both part of relativity -- or, more
> appropriately, part of the relativistic aspects of nature that were
> being discovered by physicists in this time period.
>
> PD
I had showed you already that the real rotating Earth case presented
by 1905 Einstein is explained completely by his theory and confirmed
by today huge GPS experimental evidence. About your GR reference, you
are already in the process to verify by yourself that using only
1905R, the behaviour of atomic clocks in gravitational fields can be
explained (of course, I can't force you at all to do that, maybe you
prefer a similar alternative to the one chosen by some historic
personage when refusing to see through Galileo’s telescope to observe
by himself the Jupiter satellites). An all Physics laws remain being
the same in all inertial frames (now well identified as all possible
centre of mass inertial frames where the external world applies a
sufficiently almost same acceleration in all its components).

RVHG (Rafael Valls Hidalgo-Gato)