On Jul 1, 7:58 am, Tom Roberts wrote in sci.physics.relativity:
> The "time dilation" of SR occurs when one uses multiple clocks at rest
> in an inertial frame to measure the tick rate of a single moving clock.
Correct, Honest Roberts. Einstein's 1905 false light postulate does indeed produce such a conclusion. Now an interesting development: you have multiple clocks fixed on the periphery of the rotationg disc and a single non-rotating clock placed outside the disc, in the vicinity of the rotating periphery. Also, by increasing the diameter of the disc and keeping the linear speed of the periphery constant, you reduce the "gravitational field" experienced by the multiple clocks fixed on the rotating periphery to zero. That is, those clocks are virtually inertial. Will the single non-rotating clock run slower than the multiple clocks fixed on the rotating periphery, in accordance with Einstein's 1905 false light postulate? If yes, you may find it suitable to revise Einstein's "classical" interpretation (see below) by using REDUCTIO AD ABSURDUM:
http://www.bartleby.com/173/23.html
Albert Einstein: "Let us consider a space-time domain in which no gravitational fields exists relative to a reference-body K whose state of motion has been suitably chosen. K is then a Galileian reference-body as regards the domain considered, and the results of the special theory of relativity hold relative to K. Let us suppose the same domain referred to a second body of reference K', which is rotating uniformly with respect to K. In order to fix our ideas, we shall imagine K' to be in the form of a plane circular disc, which rotates uniformly in its own plane about its centre. An observer who is sitting eccentrically on the disc K' is sensible of a force which acts outwards in a radial direction, and which would be interpreted as an effect of inertia (centrifugal force) by an observer who was at rest with respect to the original reference-body K......To start with, he places one of two identically constructed clocks at the centre of the circular disc, and the other on the edge of the disc, so that they are at rest relative to it. We now ask ourselves whether both clocks go at the same rate from the standpoint of the non-rotating Galileian reference-body K. As judged from this body, the clock at the centre of the disc has no velocity, whereas the clock at the edge of the disc is in motion relative to K in consequence of the rotation. According to a result obtained in Section XII, it follows that the latter clock goes at a rate permanently slower than that of the clock at the centre of the circular disc, i.e. as observed from K."
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