On 29 Mar 2006 20:37:45 GMT, in uk.sci.astronomy ,
(Richard Tobin) wrote:

In article ,
Mark McIntyre wrote:

If you have about four years, someone could explain it all I'm sure.
Otherwise, why not read up on relativity and see if you can work it
out.

No-one (well hardly anyone) is
going to devote a lot of time to learning a subject just to refute
someone on Usenet.

So in other words, you concede this is too hard to understand
trivially.

Especially in this case, when the more readily
available sources (such as the page I found at your suggestion on
Google) seem to match what I understand already.

There are also pages about alien abductions, JFK assassination
theories, the moon landings and the face on mars. I'm guessing that
you discard any of those that don't agree with your preconceptions
too.

So I'll just go on believing that I'm right and you're confused.

IOW, you can't prove I'm wrong, it just "feels wrong", so therefore I
must be.

For what its worth, I suspect that I can find the flaw using a
combination of SR, quantum mechanics and plain old fashioned maths.
One thing you might want to consider is that no matter whether or not
the junction moved at c, it would be impossible to observe any
movement faster than c. Another to consider is how long the finite
rod would take to cross the axis.



-- Richard
Mark McIntyre
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