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   The Starmaker to starmaker@ix.netcom.com   
   Re: The problem of simultaneity   
   07 Oct 25 15:08:27   
   
   From: starmaker@ix.netcom.com   
      
   On Tue, 07 Oct 2025 14:37:46 -0700, The Starmaker   
    wrote:   
      
   >On Tue, 7 Oct 2025 10:51:53 +0200, "Paul B. Andersen"   
   > wrote:   
   >   
   >>Den 07.10.2025 10:05, skrev Thomas Heger:   
   >>> Am Sonntag000005, 05.10.2025 um 12:38 schrieb Paul B. Andersen:   
   >>>> Den 05.10.2025 11:00, skrev Thomas Heger:   
   >>>>> Am Samstag000004, 04.10.2025 um 20:39 schrieb Paul B. Andersen:   
   >>>>>> Den 02.10.2025 09:52, skrev Thomas Heger:   
   >>>>>>>   
   >>>>>>> The universe has actually no time, because time is a LOCAL measure.   
   >>>>>>>   
   >>>>>>> Your local time will always point into the future, but only into   
   >>>>>>> your LOCAL future!   
   >>>>>>>   
   >>>>>>> Other observers in other locations have a local future, too, but   
   >>>>>>> that can actually be your past.   
   >>>>>>>   
   >>>>>> You are on the Earth and I am on the Moon.   
   >>>>>>   
   >>>>>> Can you give an example where my local future is yor local past?   
   >>>>>>   
   >>>>>> (Or vice versa if you prefer.)   
   >>>>>   
   >>>>> Not, because the distance between Moon and Earth is real valued.   
   >>>>>   
   >>>>> If you turn the axis of time upside down, this would be an 'imaginary   
   >>>>> rotation'.   
   >>>>>   
   >>>>> This would be a valid timeline, too, but in world, which is made from   
   >>>>> anti-matter.   
   >>>>>   
   >>>>> Such an 'anti-world' would be perfectly normal, though only for anti-   
   >>>>> beings living there.   
   >>>>>   
   >>>>> But we couldn't go there, because contact to anti-matter would make   
   >>>>> us detonate instantly.   
   >>>>>   
   >>>>>   
   >>>>> TH   
   >>>>   
   >>>> So if my local future were your local past, then the world   
   >>>> would explode?   
   >>>   
   >>> No, you would.   
   >>>   
   >>OK.   
   >>Since you are not trying to defend your statement:   
   >>   
   >>  "Other observers in other locations have a local future,   
   >>   too, but that can actually be your past."   
   >>   
   >>. . you must have realised that it is meaningless nonsense.   
   >>   
   >>BTW, you have still not responded to the following:   
   >>   
   >>Does that mean that you have understood Einstein's   
   >>definition of simultaneity?   
   >>Or are you unable to read and understand it?   
   >>   
   >>Please read it, and if you find a logical error in   
   >>Einst5ein's derivation,  please point it out.   
   >>   
   >>-----------------------------------   
   >>   
   >>quote from § 1. Definition of Simultaneity   
   >>-------------------------------------------   
   >>|  we establish   
   >>|  by definition that the “time” required by light to travel   
   >>|  from A to B equals the “time” it requires to travel from   
   >>|  B to A."   
   >>   
   >>So in SR the speed of light is isotropic c by definition.   
   >>   
   >>This is a definition of simultaneity, se below.   
   >>   
   >>That two clocks are synchronous means that they   
   >>simultaneously show the same.   
   >>(This is the definition of "synchronous".)   
   >>   
   >>Einstein made 'an imaginary physical experiment':   
   >>(a _thought experiment_)   
   >>   
   >>quote from § 1. Definition of Simultaneity   
   >>-------------------------------------------   
   >>| "Let a ray of light start at the “A time” tA from A towards B,   
   >>| let it at the “B time” tB be reflected at B in the direction   
   >>| of A, and arrive again at A at the “A time” t?A."   
   >>   
   >>tA is the time shown by the clock at A when the ray leave A.   
   >>tB is the time shown by the clock at B when the ray hits B.   
   >>t'A is the time shown by the clock at A when the reflected   
   >>     ray hits A.   
   >>   
   >>In a thought experiment measurements can be made with   
   >>infinite precision, and we can sit at our desks and analyse it.   
   >>   
   >>The transit time is d/c where d is the distance between A and B.   
   >>Let clock B be F ahead of clock A, where F is between 0 and   
   >>a long time.   
   >>   
   >>We then have: tB  = tA + d/c + F   
   >>and:          t'A = tB + d/c - F   
   >>   
   >>so:  (tB - tA)  = d/c + F   
   >>      (t'A - tB) = d/c - F   
   >>   
   >>If (tB - tA) = (t'A - tB)  then (d/c + F) = (d/c - F),   
   >>which is true only if F = 0,   
   >>the clocks simultaneously show the same.   
   >>   
   >>This means:   
   >>   
   >>    TB = (TA + d/c)   
   >>  When clock B shows TB clock A simultaneously   
   >>  shows (TA + d/c), which is the same.   
   >>   
   >>    t'A = (tB + d/c)   
   >>  When clock A shows t'A clock B simultaneously   
   >>  shows (tB + d/c), which is the same.   
   >>   
   >>   
   >>Thus:   
   >>  In accordance with definition the two clocks are synchronous if   
   >>       tB ? tA = t?A ? tB.   
   >>   
   >>This is a logical consequence of the postulates of SR   
   >>and that the speed of light is isotropic.   
   >>   
   >>Einstein's definition of simultaneity is mathematically   
   >>consistent.   
   >>   
   >>This doesn't say anything about whether or not SR's   
   >>predictions are in accordance with measurements.   
   >>Only real experiments can do that.   
   >   
   >   
   >You just tested positive for Stupid!   
   >   
   >   
   >A and B may have  simultaneously synchronous clocks but,   
   >A and B are two different events in time.   
   >   
   >if i'm in the middle of A and B, ...what time is it? B future or A's   
   >past, or half past a cows ass..?   
   >   
   >   
   >You just tested positive for Stupid!   
   >   
   >Tel GG to send you some used panties...   
   >   
   >let's get this romance going!!!!   
      
      
   another reason You just tested positive for Stupid!...   
      
    Einstein's definition of simultaneity has NOTHING to do with   
   space or time...   
   they are Einstein's 'thought clocks'...   
   he's a con artists..   
      
    Einstein's definition of simultaneity has NOTHING to do with   
   space or time...it all has to do with...'relativity'.   
      
   NOTHING TO DO WITH ...CLOCKS!   
      
   oops, i think my thought clock is slow, i'm late again for class! i   
   thought it was earlier...   
   i need a new thought clock...   
      
   2 clocks   
      
   a cukoo clock   
      
   2 cuckoo clocks!   
      
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