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Where did I say anything like that? Please quote what you are referring to.Fredrik said:An acceleration of zero makes the observer an inertial observer, and an inertial observer has velocity 0 in the inertial coordinate system associated with his own motion. That's what rbj pointed out, and then you came along and pointed out that an inertial observer has a non-zero velocity in other inertial coordinate systems.ghwellsjr said:Yes there is something wrong with rbj's post. He expressed over and over again that having an acceleration of zero leads to a velocity of zero which is not true. Instead it leads to any constant velocity of which zero is just one of an infinite number of valid answers.
Where did he ever say I misrepresented his position? Please quote what you are referring to.Fredrik said:Since this doesn't in any way disagree with what rbj said, it was a very bad time to claim that he was "missing the whole point of the principle of relativity". rbj definitely went too far with his insults later in the thread, but I have to agree with him that you misrepresented his position.