Cecil Moore wrote:
John Smith wrote:
You really want to propose that my yardstick grows longer (has no
relation to human body parts, I am sure! Hmm, could this be possibly
be desirable?) while my seconds grow shorter?

Both concepts are contained in Lorentz's
transformations.

Cecil:

Lorentz would ONLY plug time into an equation because he did NOT know
and understand the real workings of the ether, and, strangely enough,
the "quaint notion" of earth time can be used (a mixture of movement and
distance.) In much the same way, 377 ohms (the impedance of ether)
stands for a mathematical term which can be accounted for with NO other
term(s), but obviously speaks to some unknown quality/law/property of
the ether...

But, once again, you already knew that...

JS