No one will ever take cold fusion seriously if they come here and read
nonsense about how relativity is wrong. All of these specious arguments
focus on the constancy of the speed of light.

What is never understood is that C isn't the speed of anything in
particular. It is a parameter that characterizes the geometry of spacetime,
which is no longer Euclidean. The structure of this geometry emerges from a
very simple (group theoretic) analysis. The parameter C emerges out of the
analysis and is either finite, or not. Experience shows that it is finite.
The derivation is here, I gave it some years ago and this person has added
commentary, most of which is helpful. Only simple algebra is required.

That light goes at C is incidental to the existence of a universal constant
with the dimensions of speed. It does so because the corresponding field is
massless. The most important point to be grasped is that one does not
assume C=constant - this comes right out of the symmetry and homogeneity
analysis. Euclidean geometry is also characterized by a constant - however
it is imaginary, and corresponds to the "circular points at infinity" in
projective geometry.

http://membrane.com/sidd/wundrelat.txt

-drl


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