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Article #4334Re: The Flat Earth? - Conclusion
From: Ken Arromdee
Date: Tue, 20 Jun 1995 00:00
Date: Tue, 20 Jun 1995 00:00
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In article <19950620.140656.778@vnet.ibm.com>, Jonathan Scott <jonathan_scott@vnet.ibm.com> wrote: >It turns out that if you claim that you are standing still and it is >the universe which is rotating, the gravitational rotational field >of the universe causes things to move in strange ways which >correspond exactly to the Newtonian centrifugal and coriolis forces >experienced in a rotating frame of reference. I'm a little doubtful here. If you were standing still and the universe rotating, distant objects would be moving at faster than the speed of light. -- Ken Arromdee (email: arromdee@jyusenkyou.cs.jhu.edu) Romana: "But he had such an honest face!" Doctor: "Romana! You can't be a successful thief with a _dis_honest face!"
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: f66d0,bd5c6f53c27c37d X-Google-Attributes: gidf66d0,public X-Google-Thread: f44bc,bd5c6f53c27c37d X-Google-Attributes: gidf44bc,public X-Google-Thread: 1038c2,bd5c6f53c27c37d X-Google-Attributes: gid1038c2,public X-Google-Thread: fc158,bd5c6f53c27c37d X-Google-Attributes: gidfc158,public X-Google-Thread: 10f18e,bd5c6f53c27c37d X-Google-Attributes: gid10f18e,public X-Google-Thread: f74ae,bd5c6f53c27c37d X-Google-Attributes: gidf74ae,public X-Google-Thread: 10b363,bd5c6f53c27c37d X-Google-Attributes: gid10b363,public From: arromdee@jyusenkyou.cs.jhu.edu (Ken Arromdee) Subject: Re: The Flat Earth? - Conclusion Date: 1995/06/20 Message-ID: <3s7vae$ev9@jyusenkyou.cs.jhu.edu> X-Deja-AN: 104761012 references: <19950620.140656.778@vnet.ibm.com> organization: Johns Hopkins University CS Dept. newsgroups: sci.astro,talk.origins,sci.anthropology,alt.sci.physics.new-theories,sci.skeptic,aus.religion,alt.religion.christian