Re: Simple question about relativity and space time


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>> >> >> [#] the first few satellites had the option to select
>> >> >> between the standard and the modified divider; it was
>> >> >> empirically found that the modified divided is necessary,
>> >> >> as predicted by GR.
>> >> >
>> >> > I find it interesting to imagine the possible conversation
>> >> > between the military and the scientists that lead to the
>> >> > decision to make the first few satellites this way.
>> >>
>> >> Good one :-)
>> >
>> > Out of interest, what would you have done?
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>> I think I would have insisted to have an option to switch
>> from electronic circuits to phlogiston ones.
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> Do I take it from the tone of your reply that you would not
> have fitted the option to change the divider?

To keep the military happy and, by extension, paying the bills,
I would have fitted any option they could possibly dream up.

But what if it had been your money and your decision?

You know...
Suppose you ask the following similar question to all the crackpots here:
"It is your money and your decision, and you can't have an option to
switch either way. Do we program the thing according to general
relativity or according to Galilean relativity? You decide now."
Ask the question, and they will all say they would take Galileo.
And they would all be lying like hell :-|

Dirk Vdm



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