• Re: Don Lincoln Cancels Big Ben Paradox!

    From Tom Roberts@21:1/5 to patdolan on Mon Jan 1 11:01:28 2024
    On 12/31/23 2:00 AM, patdolan wrote:
    Don Lincoln takes down Big Ben Paradox from the Fermilab Youtube
    channel comments section!

    Of course. Your "Big Ben Paradox" is merely your personal
    MISUNDERSTANDING of Special Relativity.

    I see the fine hand of Tom Roberts in this outrageous act of science cancelation.

    NONSENSE! You keep posting your fantasies and pretending they are true.
    Note the BBP is not science at all, it is just your personal
    misunderstanding.

    Don Lincoln and I share an understanding of relativity, along with tens
    of thousands of other physicists. Nothing more than that is needed to
    show your misunderstanding.

    Tom Roberts

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  • From Paul B. Andersen@21:1/5 to All on Tue Jan 2 09:40:35 2024
    Den 01.01.2024 21:58, skrev patdolan:
    There has never been a mathematical calculation offered on any platform to refute the BBP. Not a single one. The only counter response has been, and will continue to be, taking it down off the platform or closing it to all further discussion. That
    is the only response imaginable by its critics. No other theory in the entire history of science has been met with this treatment. This attests to the BBP's everlasting potency to destroy SR and GR in one swell scoop.
    ______________________________________

    Consider a distant observer traveling at 0.867c ( 𝛾 = 2 ) relative to the solar system along the line that is collinear with the sun's axis of rotation. As the clockwork solar system spins beneath him, the distant observer peers through his powerful
    telescope at Big Ben in London. After taking relativistic doppler into account, the distant observer measures Big Ben's little hand to make one revolution for every two revolutions of his own wristwatch's little hand, in accordance with relativistic time
    dilation. He also observes that Big Ben's little hand still makes 730.5 revolutions for every revolution that the earth makes around the sun. From these two observations the distant observer concludes that in his inertial frame of reference the earth's
    orbital velocity is only half the velocity necessary to keep the earth in stable orbit around the sun, given the invariant spacetime curvature in the vicinity of the sun through which the earth’s geodesic passes.

    Will the earth spiral into the sun? If not, why not?


    Because what SR predicts is not a matter of opinion,
    it is a matter of fact.

    The fact is that your claim of what SR predicts
    is proved wrong below:

    Problem:
    An observer O is racing past Proxima Centauri on her way to Big Ben
    at .867c relative to the Big Ben.

    Question to answer:
    How many rotations will the little hand of Big-Ben make
    from the observer O is passing Proxima Centauri to she hits
    the Earth?

    Let's call Earth's rest frame K(t,x).
    We will call the position of the Earth E, and the position of
    Proxima Centauri P in this frame.

    O->v
    K: P-----------------E
    0 L
    At t = t₀ = 0, the observer O is at P.
    At t = t₁ the observer O is at E

    L = 4.2 [ly] proper distance Earth - Proxima Centauri in K
    v = 0.867c
    γ = 2.0068
    f₀ = 730.5 [cycles/y], proper frequency of the BB clock.
    T = 1/f₀ = 0.001369 [y], proper duration of a cycle

    t₁ = L/v = 4.844 y

    So the answer to the question above is:
    N₀ = f₀⋅t₁ = f₀⋅L/v = 3538.75 cycles
    ===================================

    This is the same as what NM predicts, because we
    have not asked what is measured in O's rest frame. ____________________________________________________

    The observer's clock is moving in K:
    --------------------------------------

    Let K'(t',x') be O's rest frame.

    There are two events of interest:
    E0: The observer is at P
    In K: t₀ = 0, x₀ = 0
    In K': t₀' = 0, x₀' = 0

    E1: The observer is at E
    In K: t₁ = L/v = 4.84429 y, x₁ = L = 4.2 ly
    In K':
    t₁' = γ(t₁-v⋅x₁/c²) = L/γv = 2.41395 y
    x₁' = γ(x₁-v⋅t₁) = 0

    In K: t₂ = T = 0.001369 y, x₂ = L/v = 2.09289 ly
    In K': t₂'= γ(t₂-v⋅x₂/c²) = T/γ = 0.00068215 y

    f₀' = γ⋅f₀ = 1465.96 cycles/y , the frequency measured in K'

    So SR predicts that O will measure (count):
    N₁ = f₀'⋅t₁' = γ⋅f₀⋅L/γv = f₀⋅L/v = 3538.75 cycles
    =================================================>

    Note this:
    The observer's clock advances the proper time:
    τ' = t₁'- t₀'= 2.41395 y
    while the difference between the coordinate time
    t₀ at x₀ and t₁ at x₁ changes by:
    (t₁ - t₀) = L/v = 4.84429 y.

    The observer's moving clock appears to run slow as measured in K. ________________________________________________________________

    Big Ben is moving in K':
    -------------------------

    t₄' = 0
    O
    P-----------E
    0 x₄'

    At Event E₄ is E at x₄' when t₄' = 0

    We know that E always is at x = L in K
    t₄' = γ(t₄-v⋅L/c²) = 0 => t₄ = v⋅L/c² = 3.6414 y
    x₄' = γ(x₄-v⋅t₄) = γ(L-L(v²/c²)) = L/γ = 2.09289 ly

    So measured in K' at the time t' = 0, E is at the position L/γ
    and BB is showing the proper time τ₄ = v⋅L/c² = 3.6414 y

    At Event E1, when E is at P, we have from above:
    BB is showing the the proper time τ₁ = t₁ = L/v = 4.84429 y

    We still have:
    f₀' = γ⋅f₀ = 1465.96 cycles/y , the frequency measured in K'
    t₁' = L/γv = 2.41395 y

    So SR predicts that O will measure (count):
    N₁ = f₀'⋅t₁' = γ⋅f₀⋅L/γv = f₀⋅L/v = 3538.75 cycles
    =================================================>

    Note this:
    Big Ben advances the proper time:
    (τ₁-τ₄) = L/v-v⋅L/c² = (L/v)(1-v²/c²) = L/γ²v = 1.20289 y
    while the difference between the coordinate time t₄' at x₄'
    and t₁' at x₁' changes by:
    (t₁' - t₄') = L/γv = 2.41395 y

    The moving Big Ben appears to run slow as measured in K'. _________________________________________________________________


    Calculation with Doppler shift.

    O-v
    P-----------------E
    0 L

    Since O is approaching the Earth, he will measure
    (see above) the frequency of BB to be f₀' = γ⋅f₀.

    He will visually observe this frequency to Doppler shifted:
    f = sqrt((1+v/c)/(1-v/c))f₀' = f₀/(1-v/c)

    He will observe this frequency for the time L/v.
    But when he is at P, he will see the light emitted from BB
    at a time L/c before he arrived at P, so he must subtract
    the counts he received the first time L/c.
    That means that he must count the cycles received during
    the time Δt = L/v - L/c = (L/v)(1-v/c)

    The number of counts emitted from BB during this time is:
    N = f⋅Δt = (f₀/(1-v/c))(L/v)(1-v/c) = f₀⋅L/v = 3538.75 cycles ==============================================================



    Keep ignoring that you are proved wrong,
    and I will keep reminding you.


    --
    Paul

    https://paulba.no/

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  • From Volney@21:1/5 to patdolan on Tue Jan 2 12:46:35 2024
    On 1/1/2024 3:58 PM, patdolan wrote:

    There has never been a mathematical calculation offered on any platform to refute the BBP. Not a single one. The only counter response has been, and will continue to be, taking it down off the platform or closing it to all further discussion. That
    is the only response imaginable by its critics. No other theory in the entire history of science has been met with this treatment. This attests to the BBP's everlasting potency to destroy SR and GR in one swell scoop.

    Your supposed "BBP" has been shot down in flames more times than I can
    count. You ignore that and parade it forth again and again just to have
    it shot down again.

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  • From Volney@21:1/5 to patdolan on Thu Jan 4 00:20:04 2024
    On 1/3/2024 8:36 PM, patdolan wrote:

    Over 200 views after 30 minutes. 50% upvote rate. The community karma rating is already at -16. But not a single comment yet. The hornets nest has been kicked.
    2.7k views and -42 community karma points later, my BBP Reddit post is the hottest thing on line today. Eat your hearts out Dirk Vdm and Tom Roberts. You too Python.

    I forgot the link:

    https://www.reddit.com/r/AskPhysics/comments/18xpmpu/the_big_ben_paradox/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3

    And just like here, not a single equation to prove me wrong.

    I noticed that at least one response there pointed out your
    frameshifting, just as I did here.

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  • From gharnagel@21:1/5 to Volney on Thu Jan 4 14:44:52 2024
    Volney wrote:

    Pat Dolan wrote:

    And just like here, not a single equation to prove me wrong.

    I noticed that at least one response there pointed out your
    frameshifting, just as I did here.

    Yep. Frame-shifting is often at fault for many misconceptions about relativity.

    I proffer as my proof Newton's law of gravitation from which we derive the formula for stable orbit

    v = sqrt[ GM/r ]

    While this is not based on the Schwarzschild metric, we can nevertheless take it as accurate enough in the non-relativistic limit for both M and v.

    Nope. You have the relative velocity between object and observer as 0.867c. Definitely out of the domain of Newton.

    We also know from the first postulate that all laws of orbital mechanics, such as Kepler's and Newton's, take the same form in all inertial frames.

    But the laws are SR and GR, not Newtons's.

    The above equation for orbital velocity returns a value twice the value returned in the BBP.

    What "above equation?? The only equation you've shown is v = sqrt(Gm/r). Is that twice what YOU show?

    Perhaps you've conveniently forgotten that Weber's approximate equation (good up to v/c small) points to the solution to the "BBP"?

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