From: Koobee Wublee on
On May 18, 10:59 am, Tony M <marc...(a)gmail.com> wrote:

> The clock rate of a GPS satellite is constant and includes a constant
> correction factor.

As long as the following three things are achieved, GPS will function
without any GR correction factors even if GR is correct about the
corresponding effect in time dilation.

** All satellites run at the same clock rate.

** Each satellite tracks its actual position and synchronizes its
chronological time (not necessarily clock rate) with other satellites.

** At least 4 satellites are referenced when a receiver tries to
acquire its position and thus time.

All satellites are automatically running at the same clock rate when
built on the same altitude (most likely close to the sea level).

The most basic of how the GPS actually works lies in the following
simple equation:

** c^2 (t_n - t)^2 = (x_n - x)^2 + (y_n - y)^2 + (z_n - z)^2

Where

** t_n = Chronological time reference of the n'th satellite
** x_n, y_n, z_n = Position reference of the n'th satellite
** t = Time of the receiver relative to the satellites' time
(unknown)
** x, y, z = Position of the receiver (also unknown)

With four satellites giving their time and position information, all
the receive has to do is to calculate the four equations and four
unknowns established by the equation above. Since each satellite
broadcasts its time and position information at the snail-moving pace
of 50-bits/sec, it would take several seconds to complete one
acquisition. Clock rates has no first-order impact on how GPS
actually works. <shrug>

Hope this helps for the ones not embracing mysticism tossed around by
self-styled physicists and self-styled-physicist-want-to-be like
little professor Andersen who loves to chase after chickens. <shrug>
From: Koobee Wublee on
On May 18, 1:09 pm, PD <thedraperfam...(a)gmail.com> wrote:

> Sorry, but you're talking mathematics and philosophy, not physics.
> Cases in physics are not made by arguing logically from mutually
> acceptable axioms.
> If this is how you'd like to proceed with physics, then you're barking
> up the wrong tree.

That is correct. You must bring in experimental results with proper
interpretations to justify your case. <shrug>

> Physics does things a little differently. The proposer puts together a
> model that includes some axioms, whether the axioms or the model are
> considered acceptable or not.

An example is the MMX. Clearly, it must reference all readings back
to the stationary background of the Aether. Larmor was the first to
come up with a transform that does so. In Larmor's Lorentz transform,
one of the two observers must be the absolute frame of reference.
Poincare took a special case in Larmor's Lorentz transform and made a
general case into the one that does not require any of the two
observers to be the stationary background of the Aether. That is not
an acceptable axiom. So, why do self-styled physicists embrace that?
That is not doing physics according to your book. <shrug>

> Quite often, the axioms are considered
> outlandish and contrary to conventional wisdom. So what?

Indeed. <shrug>

> From that
> model and those *assumed* axioms, certain conclusions are deduced from
> them, including a number of conclusions that are distinct from other
> models and which can be directly or indirectly tested in experimental
> measurement. When a significant number of those distinguishing
> conclusions are found in accord with measurement, then this
> provisionally *forces* the acceptance of the model and the axioms, in
> that the model has demonstrated itself to be superior to competing
> models on the grounds of experimental confirmation.

In the example above, you and the self-styled physicists including
Poincare and later on plagiarized by Einstein the nitwit, the
plagiarist, and the liar had failed miserably. Another example is the
photon bending experiment. The 1919 experiments and expeditions made
by Eddington did not prove a twice-Newtonian deflection if properly
interpreting the experimental data. So, the twice-Newtonian
deflection was interpreted from how much delay a photon would arrive
relative to a straight line of sight as indicated so by Shapiro's
experiments and others. The interpretation is Ok if there is no time
dilation. However, with the effect of time dilation, the
interpretation no longer holds. In doing so, the self-styled
physicists are doing physics. They are merely shamans trying to
proliferate a pagan mysticism. <shrug>

> If you think that's a sucky way to do business, and you're not about
> to go along with that game plan, then that's fine, but you're no
> longer doing physics.

Oh, no. I think a scientific method with no bias in interpreting its
data is the only way to do physics. However, if you think otherwise
as you have already done so, it is really a sucky way of doing
business. You are embracing mysticism. You are no different from
these preachers trying to interpret what the Bible says according to
historic events. <shrug>


From: Inertial on
"Koobee Wublee" <koobee.wublee(a)gmail.com> wrote in message
news:6f95a6d6-16a4-4416-a779-86a9888e6de7(a)e21g2000vbl.googlegroups.com...
> On May 18, 6:22 am, "Paul B. Andersen" wrote:
>> On 12.05.2010 15:55, Tony M wrote:
>
>> > It says the energy of a photon is equal to its observed (or
>> > relativistic) mass (not the rest mass) multiplied by c^2.
>> > And yes, it is very correct.
>>
>> A massless particle has no 'relativistic mass'.
>
> It sounds like you are OK with the concept of the 'relativistic mass'
> thing. In that case, a massless particle (defined so at rest) would
> certainly have a non-zero relativistic mass. This is all in the
> mathematics if you care to examine so instead of unproductively
> chasing after chickens. <shrug>
>
>> The 'mass equivalent' of its energy, h*nu/c^2
>> is not the same as 'relativistic mass'.
>
> It actually can be and intuitively must be as shown in the
> mathematics. <shrug>

You are correct there


From: Inertial on
"Koobee Wublee" <koobee.wublee(a)gmail.com> wrote in message
news:8b087edf-6f96-4042-980f-1c2cf4c883f6(a)c11g2000vbe.googlegroups.com...
> On May 18, 1:09 pm, PD <thedraperfam...(a)gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Sorry, but you're talking mathematics and philosophy, not physics.
>> Cases in physics are not made by arguing logically from mutually
>> acceptable axioms.
>> If this is how you'd like to proceed with physics, then you're barking
>> up the wrong tree.
>
> That is correct. You must bring in experimental results with proper
> interpretations to justify your case. <shrug>
>
>> Physics does things a little differently. The proposer puts together a
>> model that includes some axioms, whether the axioms or the model are
>> considered acceptable or not.
>
> An example is the MMX. Clearly, it must reference all readings back
> to the stationary background of the Aether.

No need for any aether. MMX is explained nicely by SR and Ballistic
theories which have no aether.

It is only if you wish to explain the result with a theory that includes a
stationary aether that you need to do that. LET handles that nicely. Or
you need to have the aether dragging along with the lab. (so its not a
stationary aether). A simple stationary aether, without any affect on the
arm lengths, won't explain the MMX result.


From: PD on
On May 20, 12:52 am, Koobee Wublee <koobee.wub...(a)gmail.com> wrote:
> On May 18, 1:09 pm, PD <thedraperfam...(a)gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Sorry, but you're talking mathematics and philosophy, not physics.
> > Cases in physics are not made by arguing logically from mutually
> > acceptable axioms.
> > If this is how you'd like to proceed with physics, then you're barking
> > up the wrong tree.
>
> That is correct. You must bring in experimental results with proper
> interpretations to justify your case. <shrug>
>
> > Physics does things a little differently. The proposer puts together a
> > model that includes some axioms, whether the axioms or the model are
> > considered acceptable or not.
>
> An example is the MMX. Clearly, it must reference all readings back
> to the stationary background of the Aether.

Clearly not, since relativity involves no references to a stationary
background.

> Larmor was the first to
> come up with a transform that does so. In Larmor's Lorentz transform,
> one of the two observers must be the absolute frame of reference.
> Poincare took a special case in Larmor's Lorentz transform and made a
> general case into the one that does not require any of the two
> observers to be the stationary background of the Aether. That is not
> an acceptable axiom.

Again, I will point to your inability to read. In physics, one does
NOT need to first agree on a set of acceptable axioms. I've said that
already. You now complain that the approach is flawed because it
embraces an axiom you find unacceptable.

> So, why do self-styled physicists embrace that?
> That is not doing physics according to your book. <shrug>
>
> > Quite often, the axioms are considered
> > outlandish and contrary to conventional wisdom. So what?
>
> Indeed. <shrug>
>
> > From that
> > model and those *assumed* axioms, certain conclusions are deduced from
> > them, including a number of conclusions that are distinct from other
> > models and which can be directly or indirectly tested in experimental
> > measurement. When a significant number of those distinguishing
> > conclusions are found in accord with measurement, then this
> > provisionally *forces* the acceptance of the model and the axioms, in
> > that the model has demonstrated itself to be superior to competing
> > models on the grounds of experimental confirmation.
>
> In the example above, you and the self-styled physicists including
> Poincare and later on plagiarized by Einstein the nitwit, the
> plagiarist, and the liar had failed miserably.

On the contrary. Relativity makes a large number of predictions that
are distinct from other models, including Lorentz Ether Theory, and
those predictions have been borne out by dozens of experiments.

I see that you are taking the approach of trying to chip away at the
veracity of a couple of important experiments, perhaps doing so with
the hope of implying that there are no experiments that have been done
that have agreed with the unique and distinctive implications of
relativity.

> Another example is the
> photon bending experiment. The 1919 experiments and expeditions made
> by Eddington did not prove a twice-Newtonian deflection if properly
> interpreting the experimental data. So, the twice-Newtonian
> deflection was interpreted from how much delay a photon would arrive
> relative to a straight line of sight as indicated so by Shapiro's
> experiments and others. The interpretation is Ok if there is no time
> dilation. However, with the effect of time dilation, the
> interpretation no longer holds. In doing so, the self-styled
> physicists are doing physics. They are merely shamans trying to
> proliferate a pagan mysticism. <shrug>
>
> > If you think that's a sucky way to do business, and you're not about
> > to go along with that game plan, then that's fine, but you're no
> > longer doing physics.
>
> Oh, no. I think a scientific method with no bias in interpreting its
> data is the only way to do physics. However, if you think otherwise
> as you have already done so, it is really a sucky way of doing
> business. You are embracing mysticism.

What mysticism? I've asked you REPEATEDLY what you find mysterious
about relativity, and your only answer has been that if I have to ask
then I am blind. Passive-aggressive non-answers do not help your
cause.

> You are no different from
> these preachers trying to interpret what the Bible says according to
> historic events. <shrug>