Re: Is my friend full of BS?




"Ben Newsam" <ben.newsam@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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| On Thu, 17 Aug 2006 13:54:22 GMT, "Sorcerer"
| <Headmaster@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
| >"Ben Newsam" <ben.newsam@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
| >news:q8r8e2lb4fhioveu9b8gghk2bientu6pk4@xxxxxxxxxx
| >| As I said above, there is no difference between your experience of
| >| gravity in your chair on earth, and in your chair in a continuously
| >| accelerating spaceship. The effects are the same.
| >
| >Can't be, I move in the spacecraft relative to the ground.
| >I do not move relative to the ground while sitting in my chair and
| >the Earth is quite definitely not expanding.
|
| I made no mention of what was actually happening, whatever that means
| anyway, merely that you cannot tell the difference.

Perhaps you cannot tell what motion is, but I can. Have a nice day.

Androcles



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