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Re: Z.C. I Was Quoting.

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Posted by Zephram Cochrane/">Zephram Cochrane on November 17, 1999 03:04:53 UTC

: ...Although the changes taking place relative to locations (of our two observers) within space are very small, they are being calculated as if one observer has not moved at all. This is the flaw I see.

The calculations can be done taking either, or neither, to be "still". There is no preferred frame in SR. You are imagining a flaw that does not exist in relativity. It exists in Newton's absolute space.

:One observer may stand still on earth but he has moved, ever so slightly, relative to the sun as has our second observer. I don't think Einstein's equations take this tiny difference into consideration, and in dealing with vast distances, the farther out you get the greater the error appears.

Einstein's equations take any motion you want to consider into account. You may even consider gravitational effects using general relativity.

:Ask any golfer with a bad hook. Or a sniper taking a thousand yard shot being off his aim by a milimeter or so.

And ask a physicist what degree of relative motion requires SR treatment.

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