'On the Electrodynamics of Moving bodies' Reinterpreted

[Mohammad Shafiq Khan]

x' is a variable. Specifically, Einstein is saying that there is a function x'(x, y, z, t), and it turns out that you can determine x, y, z, and t from x'(x, y, z, t), y, z, and t - so as tau is a function of x, y, z, and t, tau can be determined from x', y, z, and t.------ Swansont Ph.D Physics

 

 

Please read the article of Albert Einstein 'On the Electrodynamics of Moving bodies' and discuss the discovery by Swansont which even Einstein did not know.

[uncool]

x' is a variable. Specifically, Einstein is saying that there is a function x'(x, y, z, t), and it turns out that you can determine x, y, z, and t from x'(x, y, z, t), y, z, and t - so as tau is a function of x, y, z, and t, tau can be determined from x', y, z, and t.------ Swansont Ph.D Physics

Try again. I wrote that.

Please read the article of Albert Einstein 'On the Electrodynamics of Moving bodies' and discuss the discovery by Swansont which even Einstein did not know.

Err. No. This is exactly what Einstein said:

 

"To any system of values x, y, z, t, which completely defines the place and time of an event in the stationary system, there belongs a system of values [MATH]\xi, \eta, \zeta, \tau[/MATH], determining that event relatively to the system k, and our task is now to find the system of equations connecting these quantities."

 

He's saying that [LATEX]\xi, \eta, \zeta, \tau[/LATEX] are functions of x, y, z, and t. And even if he hadn't said it explicitly, it's obvious.

 

 

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Edited June 12, 2012 by uncool

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Mohammed

Firstly it was member uncool who made that comment - here . You are getting quote attributions wrong in many of your posts - whilst not crucial this shows a lack of respect towards your fellow members; please try and quote accurately.

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[Mohammad Shafiq Khan]

Try again. I wrote that.

 

Err. No. This is exactly what Einstein said:

 

"To any system of values x, y, z, t, which completely defines the place and time of an event in the stationary system, there belongs a system of values [MATH]\xi, \eta, \zeta, \tau[/MATH], determining that event relatively to the system k, and our task is now to find the system of equations connecting these quantities."

 

He's saying that [LATEX]\xi, \eta, \zeta, \tau[/LATEX] are functions of x, y, z, and t. And even if he hadn't said it explicitly, it's obvious.

 

 

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Einstein has also said this in his article

 

“If we place x'=x-vt, it is clear that a point at rest in the

system k must have a system of values x', y, z,

independent of time. We first define

(tau)

as a function of x',

y, z, and t.”

 

 

Why cannot you see the trick in these two sentences. The values of x',y,z should be independent of time (tau) as per first sentence then how come tau becomes the function of x',y,z in the second sentence.So simple a trickery.

[D H]

Einstein has also said this in his article

 

“If we place x'=x-vt, it is clear that a point at rest in the

system k must have a system of values x', y, z,

independent of time. We first define

(tau)

as a function of x',

y, z, and t.”

 

 

Why cannot you see the trick in these two sentences. The values of x',y,z should be independent of time (tau) as per first sentence then how come tau becomes the function of x',y,z in the second sentence.So simple a trickery.

There's no trick. There's only you intentionally misreading. A point with fixed coordinates in the moving system will have time varying coordinates in the stationary system, and vice versa.

 

If you don't like Einstein's original presentation as translated into English, you can find plenty of other derivations of the Lorentz transformation that don't invoke Einstein's original terminology. Just pick up any text for the typical upper undergraduate classical mechanics course or for the typical upper undergraduate E&M course.

[Mohammad Shafiq Khan]

There's no trick. There's only you intentionally misreading. A point with fixed coordinates in the moving system will have time varying coordinates in the stationary system, and vice versa.

 

If you don't like Einstein's original presentation as translated into English, you can find plenty of other derivations of the Lorentz transformation that don't invoke Einstein's original terminology. Just pick up any text for the typical upper undergraduate classical mechanics course or for the typical upper undergraduate E&M course.

 

Kindly refer the article of Einstein and my two sentences and please try to atleast think like a schoolboy; that if we say that tau is a function of x' then also x'=f(tau) but in the moving coordinate system x' is always at constant distance from the origin of the moving cordinate system k. That is how Einstein had introduced the moving coordinate system k ad point x'. Hence x' is constant for all values of tau and as such tau is not a function of x'. That is why partial derivative of tau with respect to x' is zero and that is why this term in the equation of trickery is the root cause of all fallacy of main-stream physics. Instead of making judgements; sit for five minutes and think like a school boy and you will realise the trickeries of Einstein & never under estimate others.

[D H]

Hence x' is constant for all values of tau and as such tau is not a function of x'.

Baloney.

 

Imagine you are driving down the freeway and pass by a car at constant speed v. Imagine that other car has a pair of fuzzy dice hanging from its rear view mirror. Suppose you and the other car have a car-based coordinate frame with the x-axis pointing in the direction of the car's motion. From your perspective, the x coordinate of that pair of dice varies with time, x'(t)=x(0)-vt. From the perspective of the driver of that other car, the x coordinate of that pair of dice is some time-invariant value ξ.

Edited June 12, 2012 by D H

[swansont]

Einstein has also said this in his article

 

“If we place x'=x-vt, it is clear that a point at rest in the

system k must have a system of values x', y, z,

independent of time. We first define

(tau)

as a function of x',

y, z, and t.”

 

 

Why cannot you see the trick in these two sentences. The values of x',y,z should be independent of time (tau) as per first sentence then how come tau becomes the function of x',y,z in the second sentence.So simple a trickery.

 

No, it's basic math and you're fumbling it.

[uncool]

Einstein has also said this in his article

 

“If we place x'=x-vt, it is clear that a point at rest in the

system k must have a system of values x', y, z,

independent of time.[/QUOTe]

This is separate from the next statement. What it's saying is that an object that is traveling at velocity v relative to the original frame must be traveling at velocity 0 relative to the alternate frame.

We first define

(tau)

as a function of x',

y, z, and t.”

This is a statement in general.

Why cannot you see the trick in these two sentences.

Because there is none.

The values of x',y,z should be independent of time (tau) as per first sentence

No, it's not saying that they're always independent. It's saying that x' is a function of x, y, z, and t - and that if we set x' = x - vt, then x', y, and z are independent of time.

then how come tau becomes the function of x',y,z in the second sentence.So simple a trickery.

There is no trickery.

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