From: Al Tino ... Stephen is certainly correct about one thing: In describing Special Relativity, I use the modern language of photons, not the language of...
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Jul 3, 2000 12:34 am
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From: Stephen Speicher In his most recent posting Al Tino reiterates his claims, and shows no evidence of having taken cognizance of my arguments. In the hope...
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Jul 3, 2000 10:36 am
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From: Al Tino ... Yes, that photons travel at speed c is a fact of nature. But with respect to what? TEW shows how photons travel with respect to their...
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Jul 5, 2000 3:43 am
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From: Stephen Speicher Although I am sure that Al Tino does not intend it, he asks for a demonstration of the TEW to be done in spite of facts, not with them....
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Jul 6, 2000 2:32 am
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[From: John Alway] I'm curious, how does TEW integrate with Newtonian mechanics? I'm referring specifically to Newton's three laws. Does TEW explain those...
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Jul 8, 2000 5:47 pm
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From: Stephen Speicher ... The TEW is, at the base, a quantum theory, and just like standard quantum theory it must reduce to (or recover) classical mechanics....
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Jul 9, 2000 3:11 am
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From: TEWLIP moderator Re: [TEWLIP] Constant Speed of Light thread Dear Colleagues, Thank you to Stephen Speicher and Al Tino and other members for their...
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Jul 11, 2000 7:39 pm
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From: Nick Bykovetz Hello, everyone! I recently joined the list because of my perennial interest in fundamental issues in the sciences and in epistemology (and...
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Jul 12, 2000 8:58 am
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From: Stephen Speicher Regarding Nick Bykovetz' comments on superluminal signaling: As I mentioned previously, the popular reports of this supposed phenomena...
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Jul 13, 2000 5:17 am
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From: Phil Oliver As I understand it, one simple way to illustrate the bogus claims of superluminal velocities is to consider the mundane example of an ocean...
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Jul 13, 2000 3:02 pm
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From Harry Binswanger, I'd like to know TEW's and relativity's answer to this simple, multiple choice question: A photon is moving from an emitter in New York...
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Jul 13, 2000 3:27 pm
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From: Al Tino ... In standard special relativity (SR) the answer is #1: a photon travels at speed c with respect to all inertial frames. More generally,...
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Jul 14, 2000 2:17 am
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From: Stephen Speicher ... 1) c...
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Jul 14, 2000 2:24 am
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From: Matt Green. I have been doing some studying lately regarding TEW and our notions of space and time. I read Little's paper and he explained that TEW...
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Jul 14, 2000 6:37 pm
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From: Stephen Speicher Matt Green asks questions about spacetime and the physics of multiple dimensions. I think the answers are sprinkled through several...
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Jul 15, 2000 4:22 am
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[Author: John W Bales] Matt Green brings up the Kaluza-Klein hyperspaces in which Maxwell's equations and the Yang-Mills equations are derived from Einstein's ...
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Jul 17, 2000 1:55 am
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From: Stephen Speicher ... In 1919 Theodor Kaluza wrote a paper suggesting a geometric unification of electromagnetism and gravitation by extending spacetime...
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Jul 18, 2000 1:53 am
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[Author: Burke Chester] Another story. An article was published in Thursday's "Nature" journal. ...
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Jul 20, 2000 5:31 am
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From: Stephen Speicher I just want to acknowledge that L. J. Wang's paper, "Gain-assisted superluminal light propagation", will be published in tomorrow's...
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Jul 20, 2000 5:31 am
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From Edward L. Scheiderer: See the following website for more information on the gain-assisted superluminal light propagation experiments by L. J. Wang et.al. ...
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Jul 21, 2000 1:21 pm
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From: Stephen Speicher I have had a chance now to review Wang's _Nature_ paper, "Gain-assisted superluminal light propagation", and this whole hoopla is even...
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Jul 24, 2000 1:04 am
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[Author: Raphael Almeria] ... Given Stephen's remark about this being worse than he thought how does one reconcile the following, culled from the [Wang's] own...
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Jul 26, 2000 1:59 am
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[Author: Michael Charatan] Re: the twin paradox I've been toying with different explanations for the different ages in the twin paradox. The twin who stays on...
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Jul 26, 2000 2:05 am
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From: Stephen Speicher ... It is important to keep in mind the special relativistic distinction between time dilation, which is considered a matter of...
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Jul 26, 2000 3:48 pm
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[Author: Jeff L Jones] ... If you take the Earth's motion around the Sun into account, you have to use General Relativity (not simply Special). The twin on the...
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Jul 26, 2000 3:53 pm
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From: Stephen Speicher ... Wang's web site is meant for public consumption, and is misleading in a multitude of ways. Note the following passage from the...
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Jul 26, 2000 3:55 pm
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From: Phil Oliver From my simple perspective, one would show that propagation of light at a speed > c had occured by simply taking the time of first detection...
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Jul 27, 2000 7:31 am
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From: Stephen Speicher ... This is not strictly the case. The Earth as a whole may be considered to be in free-fall -- and therefore an inertial frame -- but...
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Jul 27, 2000 7:36 am
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[Author: Ed Kiser] Hi again. I've been quiet for a while because most of my physics knowledge comes from science fiction magazines such as Analog. Given that,...
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From: Al Tino ... The usual statement of the twin paradox displays an asymmetry in the following sense: The "stay at home" twin remains in a single inertial...
