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To: LeGrande
We will reschedule drilling into the "superposition principle" cavity for the moment, because that nerve seems sensitive. Instead, let's begin drilling into a new cavity.

In #354 mrjesse asked for references concerning your ramblings about gravity and the curvature of spacetime. In response to this, you suggested he go "look up" spacetime Lorentz transformations:

...just google, space-time Lorentz transformation,...
Now, I could ask what, in your mind, is the connection between curvature of spacetime and Lorentz transformations, but that would open the door to more waves of nothing. So, first, let us follow your advice to "go look up" things and see where it leads. Here is an exceptionally clear and careful treatment of Lorentz transformations (worth downloading and keeping):
One more derivation of the Lorentz transformations , Levy-Leblond, 1975.
Notice that nothing at all is said about curvature of spacetime. There's a good reason for that of course, a reason you aren't aware of. Were you thinking that length contraction and time dilation are effects of spacetime curvature?
493 posted on 07/04/2008 12:58:43 AM PDT by Ethan Clive Osgoode (<<== Click here to learn about Darwinism!)
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To: Ethan Clive Osgoode
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494 posted on 07/04/2008 1:16:53 AM PDT by annalex (http://www.catecheticsonline.com/CatenaAurea.php)
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To: Ethan Clive Osgoode
We will reschedule drilling into the "superposition principle" cavity for the moment, because that nerve seems sensitive. Instead, let's begin drilling into a new cavity.

That is probably a good thing. I seem to be incapable of satisfactorily explaining the difference between apparent and actual position, much less the superposition principle.

Notice that nothing at all is said about curvature of spacetime. There's a good reason for that of course, a reason you aren't aware of. Were you thinking that length contraction and time dilation are effects of spacetime curvature?

I am guilty as charged : ) I was simply trying to fill in conceptual holes for mrjesse. I won't make that mistake again.

495 posted on 07/04/2008 5:33:28 AM PDT by LeGrande
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