Re: a question on the relativity of lengths and times (need help)
- From: "Androcles" <Androcles@ MyPlace.org>
- Date: Tue, 26 Jul 2005 21:53:09 GMT
"sue jahn" <susysewnshow@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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| Install closed circuit television monitors at each end of the rod.
| Connect monitors to a camera with equal lengths of cable.
| Place an egg timer over a nut in front of the camera.
|
| When CCTV viewers at the front and back of the rod see a
| squirrel steal the nut from under the egg timer, they each throw
| a beer bottle on the x axis.
|
| The distance between the bottles is the length of the rod.
|
| The clock can't really be considered stationary beacuse the
| squirrel tipped it over and the whole solution can't truly
| be considered relativistic, because it doesn't have a
| a railcar... but the length of the rod should work out
| anyway. ;-)
|
| Sue...
Look, ya gotta use a clock, not an egg timer.
Einstein was a patent office clerk in Switzerland.
Now what does a Swiss need a patent for?
Ask yourself what they made in Switzerland in the early
1900's.
Yep... you've got it.
Einstein was looking at patents for...
CUCKOO clocks.
Androcles.
.
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