sci.physics.electromag

On Wed, 19 Mar 2008 16:07:01 +0100, "harry"
wrote:

>
>"Dr. Henri Wilson" wrote in message
>news:ifb0u31n555vigjml58gg05jlou3ha1sip@4ax.com...
>> On Tue, 18 Mar 2008 14:30:38 GMT, Tom Roberts
>> wrote:
>>
>>>nade wrote:
>>>> http://redshift.vif.com/BookBlurbs/OldPhysics.htm
>>>> What do you make of it?
>>>
>>>The excerpt you posted is mostly nonsense.
>>>
>>>Specifically:
>>>> if we allow the detector to have free
>>>> motion, then the formalism of electrodynamics which follows
>>>> must somehow allow for the parameterization of the detector's
>>>> motion.
>>>
>>>Sure. We know quite well how to do that -- the detector has a
>>>4-velocity, and the quantities it measures are basically the field(s)
>>>dotted into its 4-velocity.
>>
>> Could you please provide a precise definition of the term '4-velocity'.
>
>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/4-velocity

...laughable.....the kind of SciFi that impresses little boys like Eric geese.

Isn't it amazing what mathematics can do with a false physical postulate....

>Harald
>



Henri Wilson. ASTC,BSc,DSc(T)
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....specialising in teaching physics to engineers and mathematicians....