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To: Jedi Master Pikachu

Relativity is based on “thought experiments” and not any sort of real evidence.


339 posted on 08/17/2007 6:42:48 AM PDT by jeddavis
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To: jeddavis
Relativity is based on “thought experiments” and not any sort of real evidence.

I wouldn't say so. Special relativity, for example, is based on two postulates:
1. That the speed of light is constant in all reference frames. This comes from classical electrodynamics which is based almost completely on experiments (and beautifully abstracted by Maxwell's equations).
2. That the laws of physics are the same in each inertial reference frame. This comes from Galileo and Newton who based their findings from experiments.

340 posted on 08/17/2007 7:03:31 AM PDT by burzum (None shall see me, though my battlecry may give me away -Minsc)
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