Re: Getting back to basics

From: Sam Wormley (swormley1_at_mchsi.com)
Date: 07/31/04 

Date: Sat, 31 Jul 2004 01:27:55 GMT

Jim Greenfield wrote:
>
> Sam Wormley <swormley1@mchsi.com> wrote in message news:<41099DB0.6EC0C1A3@mchsi.com>...
> > Jim Greenfield wrote:
> > >
> > > Astronomers claim to measure the distance earth/moon to a very high
> > > degree of accuracy (millimeters).
> > >
> > > So let's measure it when the moon is toward (or away from) the sun.
> > > Because the radius earth/moon is perpendicular to the earth's orbit
> > > around the sun, no SR "shrinkage" is seen.
> >
> > If you weren't so stooopid, Jim, you would go the calculations and
> > realize that the Moon moves so slowly, meters/second with respect
> > to the earth, that the relativistic effects are so small that they
> > won't be measured by ranging experiments. Don't be so blanking
> > Stooopid Jim.
>
> Are you for real? What if F* has the moon's orbit around the earth got
> to do with anything, apart from the fact that it changes the axis of
> rotation from perpendicular to the earth/sun orbit, to a week later,
> parallel?
> >
> > Many have introduced you to concepts such as
> > o fundamental constant -- the speed of light
> > o Doppler Shift
> > o photon momentum and energy
> > o special relativity
> > o and many other well understood concept of physics
> >
> > You can find this information
> > o in libraries
> > o textbooks
> > o on the world wide web
> > o among learned and skeptical thinkers
>
> ...by looking at the sky!!!!!!!!!!!!
> >
> > Supported by tens of thousands of experiments and observations
> > documented in research papers published in journals of many kinds
> > for a hundred years. Some of the experiments and observations are
> > replicated by high school students around the world today!
>
> But the one we see every night/day (AND measure) is TOOOOO simple, so
> must be ignored.
> >
> > What we have figured out and what we know is based on copious
> > reproducible evidence. I wonder when you will ever get it...
> > I wonder if you will ever appreciate that a number of us have
> > been trying to HELP YOU.
>
> You REALLY want to help?? Use your mighty influence with NASA to
> arrange an experiment ACTUALLY comparing the flights of two slugs of
> light emitted at a distance from earth- one from a stationary body re
> earth, and the other from one in rel motion to earth.
>
> Jim G
>
> .......as for Schwartz? the lightweight can't/won't even answer
> (-1)+(+1) = ?

  You can do all these experiments with the existing infrastructure of
  the Global Positioning System.

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