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To: edsheppa
.....there are errors in kind too where Newton would predict zero effect but Einstein predicts non-zero and in such a case the error is infinite.

This is not a reasonable way for a physicist to look at it. Newtons's result for the classical equation of motion is regarded as a limiting value of the Einstein result from special relativity. In other words, it is the value of the special-relativity equation of motion in the limit of v/c going to zero. There is no 'infinite error'.

95 posted on 02/17/2007 6:02:33 PM PST by expatpat
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To: expatpat
This is not a reasonable way for a physicist to look at it.

Well, it seems reasonable to me but then I'm not a physicist - probably a good thing.

101 posted on 02/17/2007 8:23:24 PM PST by edsheppa
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