Re: A silly fact about an atomic clock that relativist never want you to know.
- From: "Androcles" <Headmaster@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 14 Jul 2008 18:32:28 +0100
"Uncle Ben" <ben@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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On Jul 14, 1:01 pm, "Spaceman" <space...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
Uncle Ben wrote:
I'll go for one more round.
The cluster is certainly subject to gravity, but it is precisely
because of that that the cluster is sent up gently and allowed to fall
freely while the atoms interact with photons. The free fall cancels
the effect of gravity. That's why they throw them up and let them
fall.
If it truly "cancelled gravity", it would not be falling at all.
Why don't you get that?
When it falls in freefall is accelerating.
acceleration is a g-force event.
Or do you think when you fall, you do not accelerate at all?
:)
--
James M Driscoll Jr
Spaceman
Yes, speaking loosely, acceleration is a g-force event. So is being
in a gravitational field. But in this case these two cancel each
other. That is the point.
Have you ever seen video of astronaut training in which they are in an
airplane that is carefully following a parabolic arc that imitates the
path of a projectile falling freely? The guys are floating around in
the plane as it there is no gravity. Note the "as if." Yes, there is
still gravity at work, but there is also the acceleration at work.
And they cancel each other.
That's my last word. The Samuel Johnson quote still applies: "I have
given you an argument, sir, but I cannot give you an understanding."
Uncle Ben
Haven't got much staying power, have you, you pompous arse?
.
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