To: Southack; PatrickHenry
I would have expected Special Relativity to deal with the kinematic effect, but that General Relativity would have dealt with the Gravitational effect. SR can only deal with the kinematics of constant velocities. When accelerations or gravitational fields are involved, GR is needed; and in its framework, an accelerating reference frame and gravitational field are equivalent, just as PH stated.
55 posted on
03/25/2006 3:11:31 PM PST by
Quark2005
(Confidence follows from consilience.)
To: Quark2005; PatrickHenry
"When accelerations or gravitational fields are involved, GR is needed; and in its framework, an accelerating reference frame and gravitational field are equivalent, just as PH stated." ![](http://webpages.charter.net/aircover/USAflag.gif)
Was GR or SR cited in that post by PatrickHenry?
58 posted on
03/25/2006 3:19:41 PM PST by
Southack
(Media Bias means that Castro won't be punished for Cuban war crimes against Black Angolans in Africa)
To: Quark2005
When accelerations or gravitational fields are involved, GR is needed; and in its framework, an accelerating reference frame and gravitational field are equivalent, just as PH stated. The reason I mentioned the special theory is that I believe time dilation can be determined with nothing more complicated than the Lorentz transformation. So I didn't think the General Theory was involved. I'm well aware, however, that the GT deals with gravity.
As always, I welcome corrections (I need them).
62 posted on
03/25/2006 4:09:48 PM PST by
PatrickHenry
(Yo momma's so fat she's got a Schwarzschild radius.)
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