Re: The Cost of Relativity

From: Dirk Van de moortel (dirkvandemoortel_at_ThankS-NO-SperM.hotmail.com)
Date: 07/18/04 

Date: Sun, 18 Jul 2004 08:59:55 GMT

"Myxococcus xanthus" <mold-guardian@comcast.net> wrote in message news:ce5e7813.0407171915.1b5e91b6@posting.google.com...
> "Androcles" <androc1es@nospamblueyonder.co.uk> wrote in message news:<aJaKc.1605$3_7.17251376@news-text.cableinet.net>...
>
> > As usual, you snip relevant points and resort to personal abuse as argument.
> > If you wish to discuss the issue with me, then be civil. Now *** off.
> > Androcles
>
> Personal abuse snipped.
>
> What sort of influence do you propose that the containment has on the
> resonant frequency of the cesium atoms?
>
> Also:
>
> Both cesium beam clocks and rubidium glass-cell oscillators are used
> in GPS satellites. The rubidium clocks are constructed entirely
> differently than cesium beam clocks. In a rubidium glass-cell
> oscillator, the rubidium atoms are NOT in free fall on the ground,
> although they are in free-fall in space.
>
> Because of their fundamental differences in construction, the
> "gravitational stress hypothesis" would predict that cesium beam
> clocks and rubidium glass-cell oscillators behave differently on the
> ground versus in space.
>
> Instead, exactly the same relativistic corrections apply to both types
> of clock.
>
> The "gravitational stress hypothesis" fails miserably to account for
> their identical behavior.
>
> On the other hand, relativity has no problem accounting for the
> exactly similar behavior of both types of clock.
>
> Also:
>
> 1) Why does GPS (12 hour orbits) use a 38.6 microsecond/day
> correction, while
> 2) the Russian GLONASS system uses (11.5 hour orbits) uses a 37.7
> microsecond/day correction, while
> 3) the Chinese Beidou system (geostationary orbits) uses a 46.6
> microsecond/day correction?
>
> The gravitational stress hypothesis predicts that all free-falls
> should be equivalent, so the GLONASS and Beidou systems should use a
> clock correction identical to GPS. Since they don't, either the
> Russians and the Chinese have wasted lots of money, or the
> gravitational stress hypothesis is wrong.
>
> Myxococcus xanthus

Never argue with a creationist either. It makes them feel
important. And they make *you* work.

Dirk Vdm

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