The Untold Story of Phaeton (was: Baez's Week 250, The Meaning of Relativity and Affine Spaces)
- From: Rock Brentwood <markwh04@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 01 Nov 2007 12:27:44 -0700
On Oct 30, 7:29 pm, Rock Brentwood <markw...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
http://federation.g3z.com/Physics/index.htm#TWF250
This is an expansion of the reply issued back in April or May in
sci.math.research to:
"Though Newton to have believed in some form of "absolute space", the
idea that motion is relative predates Einstein by a long time..."
In 1632, in his Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems, Galileo
wrote:
(To paraphrase, since the original comment was in Baez' article):
"In a deckhold of a large steady-going vessel, it looks and feels like
you're standing still, the same as when you're ashore."
Excerpt from the Untold Story of Phaeton (what *really* happened)
http://federation.g3z.com/FedSeries/FourthWave/Phaeton Myth.htm
"Oh, never mind. I'll tell you what I'm gonna do. You seem like a nice
enough boy and you did make that long trip all the way over from
Africa, I'll grant you that. There aren't many mortals who do that, so
I'll be willing to take you in as one of my own. So, what I'll do is
grant you one (1) wish, but jus..."
"I want to drive the sun!"
"You what?!"
"The sun! I want to run it."
"You can't drive the sun. You're a human. You don't even know about
electricity. And the sun's a nuclear powered vwessel. Even Zeus can't
handle that."
"'Wessel?'"
"No. Vwessel, one that's nuclear-powered."
"Oh, 'vessel'!"
"Yes, vwessel. Do not mock the speech of the mighty Apollo. He can't
help how he talks; he spends his off-time during eclipses cooling down
enjoying the wonderful climate north of Scythia."
....
"I don't want to ride a mere horse and chariot. That's boring.
Everybody and their brother's doing that. I want the sun!"
"Well, I did say I'll give you one (1) wish. But I'm going to have to
seriously pull some strings here. Number one, you're only a human, and
you don't have a license to drive the sun, nor for that matter, any
other nuclear vwessel. And I ain't about to give you one either."
"Then how am I going to be able to drive the sun?"
"Well, technically, the Rules say you can't drive the sun. But it
didn't say that you can't ... um ... operate it."
"Run that by me again?"
"Well, this is what I can do. You see this magic oil over there?"
"You mean that lard the blonde babe is holding?"
"Hey! Watch how you talk about her? She fronts for the Four Seasons."
"Yeah, I was wondering what that grease was for."
"I need to grease your head. It'll shield you from the radiation when
I put this crown on you."
"So, what's the technicality?"
"Well, even though I can't allow you to move the sun through the
skies, what I can do is to stop the sky."
"You're going to do what?!"
"I'm going to stop the sky."
"How's that going to help?"
"Well, you're not going to be able to tell the difference."
"Yes I will. Everything's going to be standing still."
"No, no, no, no, no, no! You're missing the point: I'm going to stop
the sky and make the world turn underneath it, instead."
"I don't get that."
....
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