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  1. Newsgroups: sci.physics
  2. Path: sparky!uunet!iWarp.intel.com|imutm1.de.intel.com!inews.Intel.COM!sedona!bhoughto
  3. From: bhoughto@sedona.intel.com (Blair P. Houghton)
  4. Subject: Re: Rotating Bucket of Water in a Gravitation Field...Part #2
  5. Message-ID: <Bu4D8I.4o9@nntp-sc.Intel.COM>
  6. Sender: news@nntp-sc.Intel.COM (USENET News System)
  7. Nntp-Posting-Host: alfalfa
  8. Organization: Intel Corp., Chandler, Arizona
  9. References: <30AUG199222561108@zeus.tamu.edu> <4SEP199201521179@zeus.tamu.edu> <1992Sep4.121616.2819@sei.cmu.edu>
  10. Date: Sat, 5 Sep 1992 19:09:53 GMT
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  13. In article <1992Sep4.121616.2819@sei.cmu.edu> firth@sei.cmu.edu (Robert Firth) writes:
  14. >passage in his 'Science of Mechanics', Mach commented: "rotate the Heaven
  15. >of fixed stars, and see what happens to the water in the bucket".
  16.  
  17. Nothing happens to it, if space itself is an inertial frame.
  18.  
  19.                 --Blair
  20.                   "Haha.  Three-degree
  21.                    background.  Very funny."
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