Re: A Case for Paul Andersen's Famous Tick Fairies.

From: Henri Wilson (H_at_..(Henri)
Date: 11/19/04 

Date: Fri, 19 Nov 2004 21:02:19 GMT

On Fri, 19 Nov 2004 11:15:34 GMT, "Androcles" <dummy@dummy.net> wrote:

>
>"Henri Wilson" <H@..> wrote in message
>news:q3gqp0d0iljmjced6jche4vhsll5r15ia2@4ax.com...
>: Two observers with clocks are on the ground. They have counters that
>: continuously register 'ticks' from an orbiting GPS clock.
>:
>: When the GPS clock is directly above them, they both start their
>counters. One
>: observer takes off instantly in a plane and flies (very rapidly) so
>that he is
>: always directly under the satellite clock.
>
>12 hours to circumnavigate the Earth isn't all that fast, H.
>
>Let's put another observer at a geostationary comm satellite so that
>they sandwich the GPS observer. Tell you what....
>I'll be the ground observer, you can be the comsat observer by proxy
>and we'll tick-talk to each other as Andersen tick-tocks his way past
>out communucation beam... Oh... wait... We are already doing it!
>That's what the internet is all about!
>This isn't a fairy tale any more, the GPS is real, communication
>satellites
>are real, Concorde that could manage to fly under a GPS satellite,
>did so for 30 years and has been scrapped.
>
>: After two revolutions, the two observes are again together and
>directly under
>: the satellite clock. They both instantly stop their counters and
>compare
>: results.
>:
>: What answers do they get?
>
>
>Idiotic ones if you ask a relativist, he'll refer you to Hafele and
>Keating,
>sensible ones if you ask anyone capable of reason.

I don't think the Einsteinian fundamentalists can even understand the question,
A.

>
>Androcles.
>

HW.

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