HERBERT DINGLE ASKS EINSTEINIANA
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From: Dirk Van de moortel on 19 Oct 2009 11:23 John Kennaugh <JKNG(a)notworking.freeserve.co.uk> wrote in message gd1O9$CbxC3KFwuV(a)kennaugh2435hex.freeserve.co.uk > Pentcho Valev wrote: >> >> http://blog.hasslberger.com/Dingle_SCIENCE_at_the_Crossroads.pdf >> Herbert Dingle, SCIENCE AT THE CROSSROADS >> p.27: "According to the special relativity theory, as expounded by >> Einstein in his original paper, two similar, regularly-running clocks, >> A and B, in uniform relative motion, must work at different >> rates.....How is the slower-working clock distinguished? The >> supposition that the theory merely requires each clock to APPEAR to >> work more slowly from the point of view of the other is ruled out not >> only by its many applications and by the fact that the theory would >> then be useless in practice, but also by Einstein's own examples, of >> which it is sufficient to cite the one best known and most often >> claimed to have been indirectly established by experiment, viz. >> 'Thence' [i.e. from the theory he had just expounded, which takes no >> account of possible effects of accleration, gravitation, or any >> difference at all between the clocks except their state of uniform >> motion] 'we conclude that a balance-clock at the equator must go more >> slowly, by a very small amount, than a precisely similar clock >> situated at one of the poles under otherwise identical conditions.' >> Applied to this example, the question is: what entitled Einstein to >> conclude FROM HIS THEORY that the equatorial, and not the polar, clock >> worked more slowly?" > > Although Dingle was attacked on all fronts in a shameless way it was > clear that at that time there was no clear consensus. That's right. There was no clear consensus among imbeciles. There will never be a clear consensus among imbeciles. Dirk Vdm |