Thread: How do theories like relativity hold up with paradoxes?
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Old 16-June-2004, 04:32 AM
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They are apparent paradoxes because if you approach (for example) an SR problem with Newtonian logic, you will see a paradox. The purpose of using the paradox as an example is to show how the theory resolves the apparent paradox..
Then why did Mr. E have to add acceleration and gravity effects during his own attempted “resolution” in 1918, since there are no acceleration or gravity effects in the SR theory?
Don't do this again. I don't think anyone has any energy left for it.