Re: GPS 'GR Correction' Myth.


"Henri Wilson" <HW@..> wrote in message
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| On Tue, 25 Oct 2005 12:03:18 GMT, "Androcles" <Androcles@ MyPlace.org>
wrote:
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| >
| >"Henri Wilson" <HW@..> wrote in message
| >news:uusql1tnvs3kupet51g61a175ckufs236q@xxxxxxxxxx
| >| On 23 Oct 2005 17:33:04 -0700, "Eric Gisse" <jowr.pi@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
| >
| >
| >[snip]
| >Message rating: far to long and outside the scope of the student.
| >
| >You need to teach Gisse v = dx/dt, he says it is wrong.
| >I can't be bothered with the fucking idiot, but if you want to fool
| >around
| >with the mentally disadvantaged I'd suggest starting over at the very
| >basics;
| >the material you are currently presenting is way beyond his
| >capabilities.
|
| Yes, I do it out of pity. He desperately want to become a physicist.

Ok, well, the first thing to teach him is v = x/t, then work up to v =
dx/dt.
I don't think he wants to learn, though. I think he wants to present
himself
as a smart-arse who knows all about relativity, which probably works ok
for him in everyday life since few people can actually challenge him on
it,
but when he gets in a newsgroup he's totally lost.
It's the same with assistant professor Paul B. Doppler actually.
He thinks oscillations have a "length".
All they really have is a duration. If you give an oscillator some
velocity
v then the "wavelength" is vt, and that's v/f by definition of f = 1/t.
Still, it is fun jerking chains.
I don't think any relativist truly understands Galilean relativity, or
as
Einstein calls it, the "Principle of Relativity". Half of them think
the sun crosses the sky rather than the Earth turning to face the sun.
Androcles.










|
| > Androcles.
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| HW.
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| see: www.users.bigpond.com/hewn/variablestars.exe
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| "Sometimes I feel like a complete failure.
| The most useful thing I have ever done is prove Einstein wrong".

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