Can anyone figure this out?

A quaternion is a generalization of a complex number. They are sometimes used to represent rotations in 3D space (e.g. in computer graphics to avoid problems like gimbal lock, caused by representing rotations in axis-angle form).

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They are valid at moment in time Z, and that's all i've said so far.

 

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Generalization of complex number does not specify geometric interpretation of quaternion.

here i will give you the correct answer to my question...

Quaternion tutorial

 

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If a clock is capable of measuring a duration of time, then, given any arbitrary datum, they are also capable of assigning a number (coordinate) to all other instants.

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At the first moment in time, there is nothing for the clock to measure. You used the word 'measure' incorrectly.

 

And, unless you are God, you must be using a clock to declare a moment in time. Who's holding the clock?

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...not god...

I am only referencing the first moment in time using the symbol Z, nothing more.

 

The clock's value can be set to zero at any arbitrary instant in time; afterwards, every other instant in time is assigned a coordinate.

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Ok, so God doesn't own a clock shop. Good. So, who is declaring the time Z?

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Finally you are correct. Clocks map numbers onto moments in time, by definition. Great

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No, you aren't. you said this: Let them coincide perfectly, at moment in time Z, and let moment in time Z denote the first moment of time.

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The same person who declares that now, is now.

You are getting silly for no good reason.

 

Where is this wise person in the experiment?

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I know what i said, i said it less than five minutes ago. The word denote says everything.

 

same place I always find him.

You clearly aren't interested in seeing how the lorentz transformations lead to a contradiction, so I am not going to bother doing it. I'm sure there's places on the web which have it, you can look at one of those.

 

As I said, you did not use Z only to denote "the first moment in time," you also used it to denote the instant the bodies coincided.

Do you have an actual answer, Oh Great Advanced Intelligence?

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I clearly am, that's why I'm talking to you. I asked you dozens of posts ago to demonstrate the contradiction mathematically, but you haven't. Hell, you can't seem to tell me who's wearing the watch!

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This is not correct

 

Do you have an actual question?

 

I was beginning the proof, and then you fired 10 minor questions at me, with a purpose that has nothing to do with the Lorentz transformations, whatsoever.