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- From: peri@cco.caltech.edu (Michal Leah Peri)
- Subject: Re: Time and our heroic element
- Message-ID: <1992Sep13.220334.501@cco.caltech.edu>
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- Date: Sun, 13 Sep 1992 22:03:34 GMT
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- krpeters@athena.mit.edu (Karl R Peters) writes:
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- >In article <1992Sep12.045918.13611@cco.caltech.edu> peri@cco.caltech.edu (Michal Leah Peri) writes:
- >>gilligan@bldrdoc.gov (Jonathan M. Gilligan) writes:
- >>
- >>>The meter is defined as the distance light travels in
- >>>1/299,792,458 of a second in a vacuum in an inertial reference frame.
- >>
- >>And just where do they get an inertial reference frame for measuring
- >>the speed of light in a vacuum???
- >>
- >> -- Michal
- >>
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- >Inertial reference frame: Any frame that is not accelerating.
- >Thus, the surface of the earth is OK - provided that the earth's spin
- >is not enough to mess up your results.
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- Aye there's the rub! The earth's surface is decidedly *not* inertial.
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- -- Michal
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