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Talk:World History Lecture Eleven (view source)
Revision as of 20:19, April 24, 2009
, 20:19, April 24, 2009→Postulates of Special Relativity
::::::::::: You've never explained why you think the lecture is incorrect with respect to its current formulation of the relativity postulate. I'm not even sure you do disagree with it, except that you say it is not how Pauli (who had nothing to do with relativity) described it. I have explained why Pauli's description is inadequate: his description ("the speed of light is independent of the motion of the light source") does not expressly preclude somehow increasing the speed of light. Yet the formulas for relativity do assume that is impossible.--[[User:Aschlafly|Andy Schlafly]]
::::::::::: You've never explained why you think the lecture is incorrect with respect to its current formulation of the relativity postulate. I'm not even sure you do disagree with it, except that you say it is not how Pauli (who had nothing to do with relativity) described it. I have explained why Pauli's description is inadequate: his description ("the speed of light is independent of the motion of the light source") does not expressly preclude somehow increasing the speed of light. Yet the formulas for relativity do assume that is impossible.--[[User:Aschlafly|Andy Schlafly]]
::::::::::::* ''Pauli's description is inadequate'' That's quite a surprise:
::::::::::::* Ever since this 1921 article on relativity in the ''Encyklopaedie der mathematischen Wissenschaften '', Pauli is seen as a kind of expert. This article was praised by A. Einstein himself - and many others (Born, Heisenberg, Sommerfeld). It's one of the most widespread elaborations of the theory, and that's why I quoted it in its English translation
::::::::::::* It's not a description. It's a formulation of the ''postulates of relativity''
::::::::::::* That the brilliance of the postulates: they don't have to state everything ''expressly'', a lot of things are follow ''implicitly''
::::::::::::* These ''formulas for relativity'' are conclusions from the postulates.
::::::::::::[[User:ClementB|Clement ♗]] 16:19, 24 April 2009 (EDT)
== Regarding Trotsky ==
== Regarding Trotsky ==