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To: Physicist
"General relativity works the same (i.e., it gives a consistent result) in all frames of reference."

As will the answer to our questions on this thread.

Are the Earth and Sun stationary?

Well, that's not consistent in all frames of reference, so that's probably not our answer.

Could Gravity be moving really, really fast to explain why the Earth appears to be orbiting in a plane around the center of our Sun?

Well, that *IS* consistent with what we see in all frames of reference. Hmmm...

204 posted on 06/26/2003 1:01:37 PM PDT by Southack (Media bias means that Castro won't be punished for Cuban war crimes against Black Angolans in Africa)
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To: Southack
Are the Earth and Sun stationary?

Well, that's not consistent in all frames of reference, so that's probably not our answer.

LOL. That may end up on my office door.

Could Gravity be moving really, really fast to explain why the Earth appears to be orbiting in a plane around the center of our Sun?

Look, if you want to say that roads "move" infinitely fast between cities, that's up to you. The question is how fast the cars go. Assuming that gravitational fields "move" infinitely fast, how fast do gravitational waves (i.e., undulations in the field) move?

(HINT: Tom Van Flandern says that electromagnetic fields move infinitely fast, yet undulations in the field demonstrably move at the speed of light.)

205 posted on 06/26/2003 1:38:30 PM PDT by Physicist
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