Re: What happened between Newton and Einstein?

In sci.physics.relativity, Paul B. Andersen
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on Sat, 03 Mar 2007 15:41:07 +0100
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kk wrote:
The best we can do is to completely _ignore_
Einstein's clock-setting definition, and to
find a way to get our clocks synchronized.

A way to absolutely synchronize the clocks, you mean?
But haven't you found that way years ago, Brian?

June 5, 2000 you wrote:
"I have recently found a fool-proof and very simple way to produce
(absolutely) synchronous clocks."

Paul

Presumably, clocks are easy enough to synchronize with
respect to their common reference frame (I'm assuming
spatial displacement). The trouble is that one cannot
hope to synchronize a *moving* clock, and have it stay
synchronized.

I have also heard -- somewhere -- that Boulder, CO's atomic
clock runs fast with respect to the rest of TAI; that
presumably is a GR effect. And of course NST-2 and the
rest of the constellation of GPS satellites run a little
fast (as compared/observed by Earth) and are deliberately
detuned to compensate.

So much for absolute. :-)

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