Re: What Exactly Happens to TIME in GPS Orbit?


"PD" <TheDraperFamily@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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| Rudolf Drabek wrote:
| > Henri Wilson schrieb:
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| > > On 8 Jun 2006 06:42:41 -0700, "PD" <TheDraperFamily@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
| > >
| > > >
| > > >Henri Wilson wrote:
| > > >> A vertical steel metre rod will expand by about 1 part in 10^8 when
placed in
| > > >> free fall. Its 'self compresion' has been removed.
| > > >>
| > > >
| > > >Not that it will do this regardless of the elevation at which it is
in
| > > >free fall. If this effect is responsible for clock tick lengthening,
| > > >then you will also have to explain why that it an altitude-dependent
| > > >effect and the rod expansion is not.
| > >
| > > Funny that you mention this.
| > >
| > > Relativists never talk about the clock rate variations at orbits other
then
| > > GPS.
| > > I wonder why.
| >
| > see e.g. graph at
| >
http://relativity.livingreviews.org/open?pubNo=lrr-2003-1&page=node5.html
| > You are a bit too selffocused.
|
| This is where Henri splutters, "If this were such common experimental
| knowledge, how come they didn't mention it in the Popular Mechanics
| article I once read about special relativity? These experimental
| results are obviously bogus or cooked up to support SR."
|
| PD

If this were such common experimental knowledge, how come they
didn't mention it in the Cassini article I read about synchronous clocks?
http://saturn.jpl.nasa.gov/operations/saturn-time.cfm
These experimental results are obviously bogus or cooked up to wreck SR.
Androcles.





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