From: wugi@brol.invalid   
      
   Op 30/09/2025 om 21:46 schreef Richard Hachel:   
   > One hundred and twenty years after Henri Poincaré's article, reading   
   > what is written today, we see that the problem of simultaneity hasn't   
   > progressed an inch.   
   > It would seem, sadly, that everyone continues to conceive of a universe   
   > as a rigid, flat Minkowski block, only posing "a few problems" if there   
   > are relative movements at high speed.   
   > Then we talk about time dilation.   
   > We then give some equations (some of which are wrong), and we don't   
   > explain anything at all.   
   > Albert Einstein did a great deal of harm to humanity by diverting   
   > Poincaré's theory rather than advancing it further.   
   > Certainly, his story about clock hands being set to a certain position   
   > at point A to record events at A, and those at B to record events at B   
   > is true. But it is completely ridiculous, because we are saying that a   
   > swallow is a swallow.   
   > The problem is the synchronization, not of events occurring near the   
   > clock, which we don't care about, since a swallow is a swallow, but of   
   > knowing what is happening elsewhere, and what the actual time is there;   
   > that is, whether the concept of the present moment is something flat,   
   > which he seems to assume without thinking. We see this very clearly when   
   > he assumes that the speed of light is constant (that is, the wave of the   
   > present moment) whether light (that is, information) is moving away or   
   > approaching.   
   > We then enter into a complete misunderstanding of the real structure of   
   > space-time, and we synchronize all the clocks not with each other, but   
   > with an abstract entity placed in a virtual spatial dimension, at an   
   > equal distance from all the 3D points of the universe we are studying.   
   > It then becomes completely impossible to conceive of what spacetime   
   > truly is, or its unique characteristics for each observer; and the most   
   > fundamental truths about it become so perplexing that when they are   
   > stated, they often elicit laughter.   
      
   Once you accept that light clocks are true clocks (and true meters,   
   they're actually the ultimate calibration tools for both distance and   
   time units), and how they behave relativistically in accordance to their   
   reciprocal state of motion, you'll be aware to have acquired an   
   intuitive grasp of (special) relativity features, and no longer feel the   
   need to cause misery to poor Albert and his (admittedly much less   
   intuitive) description of SRT.   
      
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