Re: The birth of General Relativity

On Oct 7, 4:36 pm, Eric Gisse <jowr...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Tom Potterwrote:

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The best GPS receivers can,
by using the methods addressed above,
reduce the uncertainty in time to about one nanosecond,
which amounts to a sphere of uncertainty of about one foot.

....and uncorrected clock drift is measured in tens of nanoseconds per
day. Welcome to why GR is used in the GPS.

I am surprised to see that my pal Eric Gisse
is ignorant of the fact that atomic clocks DO NOT drift
"in tens of nanoseconds per day. "

What confuses my pal is that
what Galileo discovered centuries ago,
is that oscillators are affected by acceleration,

and that if one wants to have an oscillator
oscillate at the same rate in a different place,
one has to take the differences in accelerations
of the places into account.

The fact of the matter is
that the short term and long term drifts
of all of the oscillators used in the GPS system
is about the same.

It is interesting to see that although I have challenged
all of the General Relativity Cultists for years
to explain why it is desirable
BUT NOT ESSENTIAL
to have the oscillators in orbit
oscillate at the same rate as the
master oscillator on the ground,

NONE of the cultists seem to understand
why this is desirable.

All they do is just parrot their favorite
General Relativity Guru,
who is on the taxpayer dole.

One would think that if these Gurus and Cultists
were privity to powerful, esoteric knowledge
that they would use it to get off the tax payer dole
and make a few million bucks in the few market.

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