Comments on: The pre-history of Einstein’s relativity http://skullsinthestars.com/2008/02/12/the-pre-history-of-einsteins-relativity/ The intersection of physics, optics, history and pulp fiction Thu, 16 Feb 2012 16:44:24 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Javier http://skullsinthestars.com/2008/02/12/the-pre-history-of-einsteins-relativity/#comment-2295 Sun, 28 Sep 2008 21:51:04 +0000 http://skullsinthestars.wordpress.com/?p=255#comment-2295 I have seen in your text, for the first time in a clear and straight-forward manner, an explanation of why many think that Maxwell laws threatened the principle of relativity. However, I still do not see the point. A man standing on a train drops a ball on the floor, which is at rest with the ball in as much as lateral motion is concerned. I head with my car towards the train and see both the floor of the train and the ball approaching me. Well, that means that, for the purpose of my survival, I had better change direction to avoid a crash, because the floor of the train is a “current” moving towards me. But if I calculate the forces between the ball and train, then I compare the motion of the ball RELATIVE TO the train and so I do not imagine that, for this purpose, there is any “current” under the ball. Could you please correct me if I am wrong?

]]> By: skullsinthestars http://skullsinthestars.com/2008/02/12/the-pre-history-of-einsteins-relativity/#comment-814 Mon, 18 Feb 2008 15:36:04 +0000 http://skullsinthestars.wordpress.com/?p=255#comment-814 babs67: Now I’m not telling! :P

]]> By: babs67 http://skullsinthestars.com/2008/02/12/the-pre-history-of-einsteins-relativity/#comment-801 Fri, 15 Feb 2008 20:53:09 +0000 http://skullsinthestars.wordpress.com/?p=255#comment-801 Where exactly were you referring????

]]> By: skullsinthestars http://skullsinthestars.com/2008/02/12/the-pre-history-of-einsteins-relativity/#comment-800 Fri, 15 Feb 2008 17:22:59 +0000 http://skullsinthestars.wordpress.com/?p=255#comment-800 PD: Where did you think I was referring to? You’ve got a sick mind…

]]> By: Personal Demon http://skullsinthestars.com/2008/02/12/the-pre-history-of-einsteins-relativity/#comment-799 Fri, 15 Feb 2008 17:09:36 +0000 http://skullsinthestars.wordpress.com/?p=255#comment-799 SkullsInTheStars wrote: “You’re assuming that brilliant physicists have to have hair on their head…”

[shudder, shudder, shudder]

Question fearfully withdrawn.

]]> By: skullsinthestars http://skullsinthestars.com/2008/02/12/the-pre-history-of-einsteins-relativity/#comment-779 Tue, 12 Feb 2008 18:31:15 +0000 http://skullsinthestars.wordpress.com/?p=255#comment-779 PD wrote: “You are just a skull with no hair whatsoever. How can we possibly trust your mad ravings?”

You’re assuming that brilliant physicists have to have hair on their head…

]]> By: Personal Demon http://skullsinthestars.com/2008/02/12/the-pre-history-of-einsteins-relativity/#comment-777 Tue, 12 Feb 2008 18:19:32 +0000 http://skullsinthestars.wordpress.com/?p=255#comment-777 From this article I have learned that brilliant physicists have a lot of hair on their heads, either on their chins (Galileo and Maxwell) or on their scalps (Newton and Einstein). You are just a skull with no hair whatsoever. How can we possibly trust your mad ravings?

]]> By: skullsinthestars http://skullsinthestars.com/2008/02/12/the-pre-history-of-einsteins-relativity/#comment-776 Tue, 12 Feb 2008 15:45:06 +0000 http://skullsinthestars.wordpress.com/?p=255#comment-776 Thanks Janet!

]]> By: Janet Szabo http://skullsinthestars.com/2008/02/12/the-pre-history-of-einsteins-relativity/#comment-775 Tue, 12 Feb 2008 14:53:52 +0000 http://skullsinthestars.wordpress.com/?p=255#comment-775 I wish you had been my physics teacher in college. :-)

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