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To: Gary Boldwater
Apparently, according to Objectivists (and this has not been refuted or disclaim by ANY Objectivist organization)SRT is incompatible to Objectivism. Or if the current theories of SRT are real then Objectivism is incompatible with reality(?).

Neither. Objectivism is perfectly compatible with SR and QM, and if an Objectivist claims otherwise, it proves only his own failure to adhere to the epistemology.

The universe is the way it is, and not how we might wish it to be.

I'd love to see any of the "Objectivist scientists" on this forum refute the claims made on the said website by either logical or scientific method.

He doesn't dispute the formalism, just the interpretation. I think his interpretation is lame, however. He simply postulates by fiat that rulers shrink and clocks slow down, and then insists that rulers and clocks don't "really" measure space and time, anyway. Nowhere does he say why, philosophically, I should expect the stub-your-toe physical reality of differently-aged twins. Nowhere does he describe a physical mechanism for atomic decays to occur at a slower rate. You can handwave away time dilation as a mere problem of perception all you want, but at the end of the day you are left with the reality these stone cold phenomena.

163 posted on 01/09/2003 11:36:42 AM PST by Physicist
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To: Physicist
So then you must disagree with Leonard Piekoff in the Ayn Rand lexicon where he discusses time and space because you believe in "space-time". How do you reconcile the violation of conservation of energy in general relativity? One of the tests for "junk science" is to see if it violates conservation of energy by this metric GR is "junk science".
How much of physics have you accepted on faith - someone else's expertise because you cannot understand it yourself?
164 posted on 01/09/2003 6:41:23 PM PST by Gary Boldwater ("When contradictions exist, check your premises")
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