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Old December 4th 16, 06:51 PM posted to sci.astro
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Default How Richard Feynman Confused Special Relativity

Einstein was confusing special relativity in an equally idiotic way:

http://www.bartleby.com/173/7.html
Albert Einstein: "Now let us suppose that our railway carriage is again travelling along the railway lines with the velocity v, and that its direction is the same as that of the ray of light, but its velocity of course much less. Let us inquire about the velocity of propagation of the ray of light relative to the carriage. It is obvious that we can here apply the consideration of the previous section, since the ray of light plays the part of the man walking along relatively to the carriage. The velocity W of the man relative to the embankment is here replaced by the velocity of light relative to the embankment. w is the required velocity of light with respect to the carriage, and we have w = c - v. The velocity of propagation of a ray of light relative to the carriage thus comes out smaller than c. But this result comes into conflict with the principle of relativity set forth in Section V."

Does w = c - v come into conflict with the principle of relativity? It doesn't of course and this is obvious, except in Einstein schizophrenic world:

http://img15.hostingpics.net/pics/86...uletableau.jpg

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