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Article #1054Re: EFFECT WITHOUT CAUSE IN EINSTEINIANA'S WONDERLAND
From: Dirk Van de moortel
Date: Fri, 09 Oct 2009 15:44
Date: Fri, 09 Oct 2009 15:44
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Pentcho Valev <pvalev@yahoo.com> wrote in message 75a24079-490e-401c-82fc-e9e1548d978d@g6g2000vbr.googlegroups.com > http://www.people.fas.harvard.edu/~djmorin/book.html > Chapter 14: "The equivalence principle has a striking consequence > concerning the behavior of clocks in a gravitational field. It implies > that higher clocks run faster than lower clocks. If you put a watch on > top of a tower, and then stand on the ground, you will see the watch > on the tower tick faster than an identical watch on your wrist. When > you take the watch down and compare it to the one on your wrist, it > will show more time elapsed." > > Note that the two watches are placed at different gravitational > potentials (the alleged "gravitational time dilation" is a function of > the potential difference) but experience essentially the same > gravitational field. <choke!> > This means that, in Einsteiniana's wonderland, > identical clocks placed in identical physical surroundings run at > different rates, that is, there is an effect without cause. Ins't that just brilliant? http://users.telenet.be/vdmoortel/dirk/Physics/Fumbles/EssentiallyTheSame.html Dirk Vdm
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