Re: Beam me up - trying to get a basic understanding of GR


<ande452@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:427AE262.3F8E@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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>> > Nobody expects SR to be valid globally. That's a major reason why
>> > Einstein
>> > searched for GR.
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>> Maybe the Lorentz Transform is not complete.
>
> Unless spacetime is flat, everyone should agree with that.
>
> What's your point? Don't you understand that everyone
> knows that for decades?

I am sure you have heard of Shipiro effect. So, here is this posting.

http://groups-beta.google.com/group/sci.physics/msg/770d1ed368a49e4a?dmode=source&hl=en

Are you the same Anderson who discovered the anomaly of Pioneer 10? If so,
I have a possible explanation for you.

http://groups-beta.google.com/group/sci.physics.relativity/msg/20cfb535049c1508?dmode=source&hl=en

>> How about the good old CMB?
>
> That's not an "absolute frame". There's a coordinate system
> in which a particular physical system (CMB) looks very symmetric.

Please explain this to me why such a coordinate in which CMB looks very
symmetrical is not the absolute frame of reference.



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