Re: Will Somebody PleaseTell bz What an Inertial Frame is.

The Ghost In The Machine <ewill@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in
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> In sci.physics.relativity, bz
> <bz+sp@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> wrote
> on Sun, 3 Jul 2005 22:17:53 +0000 (UTC)
> <Xns9688B00A7B9F4WQAHBGMXSZHVspammote@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
>> "Sue..." <suzysewnshow@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in
>> news:1120421263.498656.69920@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx:
>>
>>>
>>>
>>> bz wrote:
>>>> "Sue..." <suzysewnshow@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in
>>>> news:1120371551.170066.55630 @g43g2000cwa.googlegroups.com:
>>>>
>>>> >> 1) the speed of light is independent of source.
>>>> >> 2) the speed of light is independent of observer.
>>>> >> 3) the speed of light is medium dependent.
>>>> >> 4) there is no medium in a vacuum.
>>>> >
>>>> > << there is no medium in a vacuum >>
>>>> > You have seen this yourself or you heard it
>>>> > from itrepid explorers who returned from
>>>> > the "land of no charges" with unused
>>>> > credit cards?
>>>>
>>>> Dr. Michaelson, I presume? As the intrepid Morley said.
>>>>
>>>> Actually, I looked inside the nearest vacuum tube.
>>>
>>> Where you see the word "vacuum" think
>>> "the region between interacting charges"
>>
>> As far as I know, no experiments [aside perhaps from a double slit
>> experiment with a current through a wire between the slits] has shown
>> photons being influenced by [static] magnetic fields nor [static]
>> electric fields.
>
> OK, dumb question -- what about polarization twist by various plastics?
>
> Something tells me there's at least a static electrical field in
> there somewhere. (Either that, or the electrons are absorbing
> and reemitting. Color me curious -- and the twist is wavelength *and*
> stress-dependent.)

But the twist is not cause [solely] by a static magnetic field.
The twist is not caused [solely] by a static electric field. It is cause by
interaction with bonds in the transparent solid.

Chiral molecules [non symetric molecules] can rotate the plane of polarized
lights. Polymer molecules are often chiral. Stress on a polymer could
change the degree of chirality.

.....
>>
>> The dielectric in the capacitor in my computer's power supply is NOT a
>> vacuum. It is a region between interacting charges.
>
> Best guess from here is titanium oxide, though it depends on the cap;
> electrolytes I'm not that familiar with.

That is a good guess. I am sure that some of my computer power supplies
have 'tantalum' capacitors.

.....
>> It hertz tooo much.
>
> It's gonna hurt at a higher frequency later on...
>
> [snippage]
>
>>> The wind blows across a field of grain
>>> to produce amber waves.
>>
>> Not at night.
>
> Which is the best time to land on the Sun.
>

In the land of the sun, the sun never sets. We will have to wait a long
time before nightfall if we want to land on the Sun.

.....
>>> Something abnormal happened ~100 years ago when someone took
>>> an antiderivitive instead of a definite integral to make
>>> it look like Maxwell's dipole could radiate. If you want
>>> to get the ether out you have to look between the plates
>>> of Maxwell's capacitors.
>>
>> I looks in Maxwell's house and all I saw was a coffee pot with a cat's
>> tail sticking out of the spout. It didn't appear to have a high enough
>> capacity.
>>
>
> No, but that does sound like a bad catastrope.

There was such a trophie.

> Was it hanging above
> the mantle, perchance? :-) Was the brand name "Tea pet"?

There was a Tea Tree in the yard. Does that count?

Remember this is a coffee pot, not a tea pot, but it did cause quite a
tempest.

> If the pot was put into an automobile would it become
> a rug? (Carpet, that is. Or maybe carpot?)

If the car is in tow, it is a Cat-a-pull-it.

> And where *does* the buttered toast attached to the cat's back fit in?

It was a test of the 'always lands on feet' vs 'butter side down' theories.
The entanglement of the properties resulted in a pot that always planted
itself the same way.

Of course, Maxwell got arrested for possession.

:->



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bz

please pardon my infinite ignorance, the set-of-things-I-do-not-know is an
infinite set.

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