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To: RightWhale
Space itself can move if this experiment pans out.

Would that then mean that there's such a thing as an absolute positional coordinate system? That would completely take the realitivity out of Relativity, wouldn't it?

18 posted on 10/09/2005 3:38:52 PM PDT by inquest (FTAA delenda est)
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To: inquest

If you are inside Einstein's famous falling room your local space will seem absolutely stationary and free of gravity. If the room is falling past you, the space inside will be moving while your own space will carry the gravitational field. Which is it? That is relativity.


34 posted on 10/09/2005 4:37:21 PM PDT by RightWhale (Repeal the law of the excluded middle)
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