On Sunday, December 29, 2024 at 3:01:11 PM UTC-7 Brent Meeker wrote:
On 12/29/2024 2:03 AM, Alan Grayson wrote: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dDqUbBYpB_k#:~:text=from%20the%20car's%20reference%20rate%20however%20the,will%20get%20smashed%20by%20the%20garage%20doors.&text=in%20order%20to%20find%20out%20we%20must,use%20our%20friends%20the%20lorentz%20transformation%20equations . They are just calculating the position of the ends of the car in the garage frame so it it is contracted. Brent But at the very end, the fellow says the car also fits in garage from the pov of car frame, but the sound was bad so I couldn't get how he reached this conclusion. *You*, OTOH, *denied an objective reality*, which I take to mean the frames can and do disagree about fitting, so I don't see this as a resolution of the paradox, but rather just a restating of it. I have a totally different take on the problem; rather, similar to the TP, the frames are definitely *not* equivalent since we can easily see that one is moving, and the other, the garage, is stationary (by looking at the background of each frame!), so if you apply length contraction from the pov of the car frame, the entire universe is contracting, not just the garage. What follows from this might be interesting. In any event, what exactly do you mean by *no objective reality*? Are you just restating the original claim of the frames disagreeing? AG -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/everything-list/e40b9d2d-2fbf-4ba3-8143-dcae2743e3ecn%40googlegroups.com.
