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Old July 24th 17, 12:06 AM posted to sci.astro
Pentcho Valev
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Default What the Hell Is Going On in Theoretical Physics?

Two fundamental idiocies that killed physics:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-O8lBIcHre0
Brian Cox: 2:25 "Moving clocks run slowly"; 3:56 "Time travel into the future is possible"

Moving clocks run slowly as judged from the stationary system, but they run FAST as judged from the moving system (according to special relativity):

http://www.people.fas.harvard.edu/~djmorin/chap11.pdf
David Morin, Introduction to Classical Mechanics With Problems and Solutions, Chapter 11, p. 14: "Twin A stays on the earth, while twin B flies quickly to a distant star and back. [...] For the entire outward and return parts of the trip, B does observe A's clock running slow..."

http://topquark.hubpages.com/hub/Twin-Paradox
"The situation is that a man sets off in a rocket travelling at high speed away from Earth, whilst his twin brother stays on Earth. [...] ...the twin in the spaceship considers himself to be the stationary twin, and therefore as he looks back towards Earth he sees his brother ageing more slowly than himself."

That is,

"Moving clocks run slowly as judged from the stationary system"

is a valid prediction of special relativity whereas

"Moving clocks run slowly"

is non sequitur. Accordingly,

"Time travel into the future is possible"

is also non sequitur.

Pentcho Valev