Re: What is the "reason" C is constant to all observers?

On Tue, 27 Sep 2005 15:55:46 -0400, Androcles MyPlace.org> <<Androcles> wrote:


"sue jahn" <suzysewnshow> wrote in message
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| On Tue, 27 Sep 2005 04:19:24 -0400, Androcles MyPlace.org>
<<Androcles>
| wrote:
|
| > Hmm... this clock depends on motion and the local speed of light
being
| > fairly constant or it won't work at all.
| > http://www.amherst.edu/~ermace/sth/birdseye.jpeg
|
| That is because they didn't have railroads when it
| was built. ;-)
|
| Sue...
You think we hauled those 50 ton rocks 18 miles on the A344 through
Devizes  with an 18-wheeler Mack truck, eh?


LOL I tho't o' that after clicking the send button and seem to
recall read 'bout the some of the transport problems that construction
involved.

http://www.multimap.com/map/browse.cgi?client=public&X=412000&Y=142250&width=500&height=300&gride=&gridn=&srec=0&coordsys=gb&db=freegaz&addr1=&addr2=&addr3=&pc=&advanced=&local=&localinfosel=&kw=&inmap=&table=&ovtype=&zm=1&scale=25000

Lemme tell ya summat. The A344 has construction all the way along it.
ALL British roads have construction on them, ALL the time.
American roads are the same.

Dr Beeching came and took out the tracks.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beeching_axe
"The Beeching Axe was a reaction to the failed railway modernisation
plan of the 1950s, which spent huge amounts of money on buying new
equipment such as new diesel and electric locomotives without first
examining the railways' role, what was actually going to be needed, or
the implications of changing old-fashioned working practices and
tackling the problem of chronic overmanning."

We had to find employment for the railway workers and got them digging
up the roads.
That clock was built before 1950, y'know, but it lasted so long we
decided no
new diesel and electric locomotives were needed to build another.

The only reason some stones fell over was someone turning it twice a
year
through 30 degrees to keep it on daylight saving time.


LOL... The left would claim that created jobs for two more days
and the right would claim two more days work were extracted from
the workers. Who could argue ?  ;-)

Of COURSE we had rail, we've always had rail. I know cos my dad, my
grandad and my great-grandad were railwaymen, and I'm older'n dirt.
Even Einstein did his experiments on a choo-choo, and so did Doppler.
"Didn't have railroads when it was built" --- Phooooo-ee! :-)


Well..... Maybe they didn't have lightning stokes. :o)

Sue...

Androcles.









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