Re: Baez's stupidity.




<schoenfeld1@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:1128426596.937881.127930@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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> Dirk Van de moortel wrote:
> [...]
> > SR can handle both accelerated objects and accelerating
> > frames perfectly. GR is only needed when gravity plays a
> > role.

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> > http://math.ucr.edu/home/baez/physics/Relativity/SR/acceleration.html
> > Somehow you seem to forget that very regularly...

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> More precisely, SR can handle accelerated objects if and only if the
> reference frame is inertial.

Somehow some people seem to refuse to look beyond
the tip of their own nose.
For those who can manage to uncross their eyes for
15 minutes, here is another one:
http://www.geocities.com/slithytove5/AccelClocks.htm

Dirk Vdm


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