What about probability theory? Is that a clever way of encoding the postulates of relativity theory?
On Tue, Mar 4, 2014 at 4:43 PM, H Veeder <hveeder...@gmail.com> wrote: > The geometry of spacetime is a clever way of encoding the postulates of > relativity theory, so of course spacetime will contain a parameter C. The > use of spacetime to describe experience depends on the scope of the > validity of the postulates. > > > Harry > > > On Tue, Mar 4, 2014 at 1:42 PM, James Bowery <jabow...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> More to the point -- or perhaps I should say, to the bit -- is that it >> makes no more sense to talk about speeds greater than light than it does >> probabilities greater than 1: >> >> http://www.mathpages.com/home/kmath216/kmath216.htm >> >> >> On Tue, Mar 4, 2014 at 12:35 PM, D R Lunsford >> <antimatter3...@gmail.com>wrote: >> >>> 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 >>> >>> >>> -- >>> "Time flies like an arrow, but fruit flies like a banana." - Marx >>> >> >> >
