davidm wrote: ↑Sat Oct 28, 2017 12:07 am
Viveka wrote: ↑Fri Oct 27, 2017 11:33 pm
davidm wrote: ↑Fri Oct 27, 2017 11:28 pm
*cough*
What the heck is a non-inertial reference frame, and where did Einstein talk about these in his theories? Non-inertial means that there is something there, but it isn't matter, right? How is that possible in the first place if the AEther is wrong?
Holy ... wut?
I mean, seriously ... you're asking
what a non-inertial frame is? And suggesting that Einstein did not
talk about such frames? ...
Holy ... effing ... I can't even ...
davidm wrote: ↑Sat Oct 28, 2017 12:17 am
Inertial frame: you are driving in constant uniform motion along a road and drinking coffee from a Styrofoam cup. You and the coffee behave exactly as if you are at rest -- there is no experiment you can perform to prove otherwise. Galilean relativity.
Non-inertial frame: you hit the brakes of your car to avoid hitting a goat that just wandered across the road. The coffee sloshes all over your face.
Okay. It deals with fictitious forces from my cursory reading of the Wikipedia article.
"In a non-inertial reference frame in classical physics and special relativity, the physics of a system vary depending on the acceleration of that frame with respect to an inertial frame, and the usual physical forces must be supplemented by fictitious forces.[7][8] In contrast, systems in non-inertial frames in general relativity don't have external causes, because of the principle of geodesic motion.[9] In classical physics, for example, a ball dropped towards the ground does not go exactly straight down because the Earth is rotating, which means the frame of reference of an observer on Earth is not inertial. The physics must account for the Coriolis effect—in this case thought of as a force—to predict the horizontal motion. Another example of such a fictitious force associated with rotating reference frames is the centrifugal effect, or centrifugal force"
In other words, in whatever theory the idea of non-inertial reference frames came from, the centifigual force that is easily explained by Classical Physics and an AEther is a fictitious force.
IN FACT, non-inertial frames goes against the very first postulate of Special Relativity. I don't see why you're baffled by my misunderstanding of such since it never existed in Special Relativity except for possibly people other than Einstein who expanded upon Special Relativity.