Re: Quoting from my dad's old college General Physics book

On Feb 14, 4:52 am, Sam Wormley <sworml...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Tom Potterwrote:
On Feb 13, 9:23 pm, Sam Wormley <sworml...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Tom Potterwrote:
Here's my view on the subject:
[snip--we don't need to read your views any more--once was too much]

Hey Potter--why do you call De Anza College (Cupertino, CA) third
rate? What is your criteria?

I see you are still registered as a crank (crackpot) is several
categories at crank dot net. Oh, and thanks for registering, Potter.
And make sure you stay at least 2000 feet from any schools or
institutions of learning.

I am pleased to see that Sam Wormley
continues to be a faithful reader of my posts,

but I am surprised to see that he considers
De Anza College (Cupertino, CA)
to be in the class with Cal Tech, MIT,
and the other first and second tier colleges.

Perhaps Sam likes that school,
because Erich Max Francis,
the unemployed programmer,
who is his primary reference
took some data processing classes there.

As Erich the unemployed programmer
and Sam Wormley, the ex-stress analysis grunt
pretend to be knowledgeable in physics,

I will be looking forward to seeing them
demonstrate their knowledge of physics
by actually engaging in dichotomies on physics issue.

It seems to me that setting up flame web sites,
and making nasty, childish comments about posters,
is more of an indication of a psychological problem,
than of a knowledge of physics.

--
Tom Potter

Ewww... stinky horse ***, Potter!

Would you like to discuss the relativistic corrections engineered
into GPS satellites and receivers, Potter?- Hide quoted text -

As people knowledgeable in physics know
the OBSERVED frequency of an oscillator
is a function of many things, including:

distance - Hubble Effect
velocity - Doppler Effect.
acceleration - Galileo Effect

Of course, these effects were taken into consideration
by the people who designed the GPS system,
and they are taken into account by the
technicians, engineers, and users of the system.

For example as the acceleration "g",
is a function of the distance a body is from the Earth,
the designers took the Galileo Effect into account
when designing the GPS system.

It is interesting to see that General Relativity
lumps all of these effects (And more)
into one extremely difficult to solve equation,
and then in order to use the results has to
break out, and account for all of the effects
such as the Hubble Effect, the Doppler Effect, the Galileo Effect,
etc.

When you have a set of orthogonal properties,
it is more simple, more clear, and more practical,
more time expedient, and less costly,
to attack each orthogonal property separately,
than it is to mix them all together,
and then resort them out again later.

Using GTR to solve these problems
is like making sausage, and then
separating out the components to
find the weight of the end product.

In other words,
while it would take a layman a few minutes to determine
the observed frequency of a moving body
using the combined Hubble, Doppler, and Galileo effects,
it would take a GTR Guru days to determine it using GTR.

And of course, some GTR Gurus on the taxpayer dole
lump up to 13 real and imagined effects into the GTR model,
and make some real serious sausage, that accounts for
frequency variations far beyond man's capacity
to measure, or even compute.

Considering that the GTR gang claim to
possess powerful, esoteric knowledge,
I wonder when they will go into the private sector,
like the Microsoft, Apple, Intel, Motorola, Google, Yahoo people did,
and make billions of dollars?

Time is a terrible thing to waste.

--
Tom Potter

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