Re: Relativity Allows Us To Measure Absolute Motion?



Dear Simon G Best:

On Nov 29, 2:23 pm, Simon G Best <simon.g.b...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Eric Gisse wrote:
On Thu, 29 Nov 2007 20:04:12 +0000, Simon G Best
<simon.g.b...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Some might ask: in a universe without absolute motion,
how could we end up with such a result? How come the
CMBR isn't isotropic in other frames? Why is the
universe effectively singling out that supposedly
unspecial frame?

IT ISN'T! Jesus christ...every now and then this
idea crops up.

So is the CMBR also isotropic in all other frames?

It should be aniostropic in all but one frame, one that leaves us at
about 300 km/sec. But if you leave someone in that frame, then they
accelerate rapidly and come back to meet you travelling at >0 km/sec
toward you (as you would see it), they are younger than you.

So what is "absolute" about that? It is just relativity...

David A. Smith
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