Re: RAH and Light speed

:: It is, of course, true that if all fundamental physical interactions
:: are well approximated by lightspeed signals between pointlike
:: particles in a galilean spaceplustime, then you get the observable
:: behaviors of special relativity, entirely and completely. But that's
:: not quite the same thing.

: Gerry Quinn <gerryq@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
: It is exactly the same thing, since clearly there is no other way to get it.

You don't have to "get" it if you've already got it; if it's fundamental.

:: That Newton's physics could be extended with non-relativistic
:: phenomenia, and special relativity could not. I have pointed out two
:: flaws with that claim.

: I pointed out that a strong version of the principle of relativity
: (which was no part of Newton's theory) explicitly rules it out.

Yes. And again, I pointed ou why you are wrong about that.
Namely, that the rules that *generate* space and time cannot possibly
violate the principle of relativity as you claim they might. Because
the principle of relativity is a claim about space and time, and the
rules that generate cannot possibly violate it.


Wayne Throop throopw@xxxxxxxxx http://sheol.org/throopw
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