[WikiEN-l] [roy_q_royce at hotmail.com: --A Request RE a WIKI Article--]

Thu Sep 25 20:11:51 UTC 2003

I know too little about physics to have anything helpful to say here.
Reading between the lines here, I'm guessing that Mr. Royce's views
are not mainstream?  Is there any helpful accomodation that could be
made here?

----- Forwarded message from Roy Royce <roy_q_royce at hotmail.com> -----

From: "Roy Royce" <roy_q_royce at hotmail.com>
Date: Thu, 25 Sep 2003 13:58:58 -0600
To: jwales at joey.bomis.com
Subject: --A Request RE a WIKI Article--

Dear Mr. Wales,

Your primary policy "You can edit this page right now" hopefully applies to 
the
addition of facts to an article, especially important facts. However, it 
seems to
be impossible to (permanently) add just three simple - but critical - facts 
to the
Wiki special relativity article.

I cordially invite you to check out the validity of the following statements 
for
yourself (these are the three facts of which I spoke above):

[1] No one has yet used two clocks to measure the speed of light (one way).

[2] Since we have long had the necessary technology, the reason for the lack
of a one-way light speed measurement must be the physical impossibility of
making such a measurement. (In other words, there cannot be a one-way
version of the Michelson-Morley experiment, and scientific minds should 
wonder
why not - because the implications are grave for special relativity!)

[3] The famous equation E=mc^2 does not support special relativity.
(This is stated explicitly by the imminent physicist John Wheeler on page 
148
of his famous book _Spacetime Physics_ {1963}, wherein he noted the fact
that Einstein presented an SR-free derivation of E=mc^2 in order not to
have this famous and important fact associated with a mere theory.)

The above three critical facts are currently not mentioned in the Wiki ;
indeed, fact [3] is denied.

My request is that someone please add these facts to the Wiki special
relativity article because pertinent facts are important to any 
encyclopedia.

Thank you very much for listening!

Sincerely,
Roy Royce

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