Re: What's the beef with Einstein?

From: Richard Henry (rphenry_at_home.com)
Date: 08/15/04


Date: Sat, 14 Aug 2004 21:10:11 -0700


"JM Albuquerque" <jm.aREMOV.E@sapo.pt> wrote in message
news:2o752nF7k14fU1@uni-berlin.de...
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> "Sam Wormley" <swormley1@mchsi.com> wrote:
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> > o global positioning system does work
>
> Clock's are pendulums and inertia could be the most reasonable
> explanation for the pendulum behaviour in a circular orbit.

I did not know that.

Perhaps you can answer a technical question for me: do the GPS pendulum
clocks use arabic or roman numerals?



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