Re: Frame Question. Where does the energy go?



On Feb 11, 3:27 pm, hw@..(Dr. Henri Wilson) wrote:
According to the PoR and Einstein, all inertial frames are effectively equal.

So if I am driving my car at 100km/hr along a road, the Earth is moving at
100km/hr in my frame. I calculate that its  KE is, say, 10^30 joules.

When I stop my car, the earth no longer appears to be moving.....and its KE is
now zero.

Where has all that energy gone?

....or was Einstein completely wrong?

Henri Wilson. ASTC,BSc,DSc(T)

www.users.bigpond.com/hewn/index.htm.

.....

Oh dear, here we go. Looks like it's time to teach Hank some basics of
freshman physics.
.



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