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- From: markc@smsc.sony.com (Mark Corscadden)
- Subject: Re: FTL communication in SR does not violate causality
- Message-ID: <1992Dec28.055611.25942@smsc.sony.com>
- Organization: Sony Microsystems Corp, San Jose, CA
- References: <1992Dec22.022645.5016@oracorp.com>
- Date: Mon, 28 Dec 92 05:56:11 GMT
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- In article <1992Dec22.022645.5016@oracorp.com> daryl@oracorp.com (Daryl
- McCullough) writes:
- >markc@smsc.sony.com (Mark Corscadden) writes:
- >MC>Also, the "mathematics of SR" I refer to are only the mathematics of the
- >MC>Lorentz coordinate transform, which I *do* assume to be universally valid.
- >MC>I could have been more clear about these points.
- >
- >What do you mean by saying that the Lorentz coordinate transform is
- >"universally valid"?
- >...
- >So, to repeat: if your laws are not Lorentz-invariant, then what does
- >it mean to assume that the Lorentz transformations are universally
- >valid?
- >
- >Daryl McCullough
-
- We are miscommunicating. In a previous article you yourself mention that
- my model is consistent with "the Lorentz Transformations":
-
- In article <1992Dec12.215343.12585@oracorp.com> daryl@oracorp.com (Daryl
- McCullough) writes:
- >... I would not say
- >that your model is consistent with Special Relativity, I would instead
- >say that your model is consistent with the Lorentz Transformations.
- >
- >Daryl McCullough
-
- So what is the problem, my use of the word "universally"? All I meant
- to say by using that word was that *all* coordinate transforms conform
- to the Lorentz equations, for all observers and all reference frames,
- with no exceptions. If there is still confusion lets talk about it in
- email and post a summary of our discussion, *if* it seems that it would
- be of interest to the general sci.physics readership.
-
- Mark Corscadden
- markc@smsc.sony.com
- work: (408)944-4086
-