Re: When does a FOR cease to be a FOR?




Daniel Weston wrote:
> I am sure that this is a naive question, but I would like it to be
> clarified in my own mind. Take a laboratory as a FOR. Does movement
> within the lab destroy the lab as a FOR? If a scientist changes
> position from one end of the lab to the other, is the scientist in the
> lab's FOR during this travel? Does the lab cease to consist of 1 FOR
> upon internal motion? If motion within the lab destroys the lab and its
> contents from being in the same FOR, does this mean that a moving
> experiment cannot be done within a single FOR?
>
> Depending on the answer I have some follow up questions.

Let's put it this way, an electrostatic spray paint booth
would be a bad place to test the "principle of relativity"
with a charged comb and pith ball experiment.

http://arxiv.org/abs/physics/0204034

Sue...

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