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To: Physicist
Not all motion is relative. Acceleration is absolute.
99 posted on 01/08/2003 8:46:00 AM PST by Gary Boldwater
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To: Gary Boldwater
Not all motion is relative. Acceleration is absolute.

LOL. As I wrote my post, I wondered whether some lawyer was going to come along and say that acceleration is not relative. (That doesn't make it absolute, either, but that's a longer story.) The poster wasn't talking about acceleration, but about velocity.

103 posted on 01/08/2003 9:53:49 AM PST by Physicist
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