Re: Lorentz Equations and Creationism
- From: bdbryant@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Bobby D. Bryant)
- Date: Mon, 17 Apr 2006 19:03:42 +0000 (UTC)
On Mon, 17 Apr 2006, "Dominic Torrazzi" <DTorrazzi@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
I've got this creationist carping on about how the sun could have
stood still in the sky like the bible says, falling back on what I
suspect is an answer right out of a creationist handbook. I've
include his premise below. If anyone has an answer for it I would
appreciate it since I'm not an expert on physics. By the way, this
guy's claim to expertise is that he has a high school education and
a welder.
Joshua described what he saw happen. You are correct in saying that
the earth did not stop rotating. According to the Lorentz
equations, from the frame of reference of a photon, time does not
progress at all because a photon has a speed of c. The Lorentz
equations only account for motion. That is only one parameter of
energy. In absolute time, time measured from a photon would
progress the same as from anywhere else. I think there is far more
to measurement of time than what the Lorentz equations show, but
your thinking is based on the Galillean transformation equations,
which would show that time is absolute.
The story doesn't say that time stopped. It says that the sun stood
still. The battle continued normally during that "daylight savings
time".
--
Bobby Bryant
Austin, Texas
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