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To: Donald Rumsfeld Fan

The computer chips that calculate the Newtonian trajectories will be designed using quantum mechanics.


311 posted on 10/16/2005 7:58:43 AM PDT by js1138 (Great is the power of steady misrepresentation.)
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To: js1138; Donald Rumsfeld Fan
The computer chips that calculate the Newtonian trajectories will be designed using quantum mechanics.

And indeed, to get to Mars Newtonian mechanics is insufficient. Mars probes have to correct for Einstein. Likewise GPS gives the wrong answers unless you correct for relativistic effects.

312 posted on 10/17/2005 12:16:25 PM PDT by Thatcherite (Feminized androgenous automaton euro-weenie blackguard)
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