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To: TXnMA
Nonetheless, you both looked at your watches at the same instant in Time.

I thought relativity said that there is no preferred inertial reference frame.

Cheers!

113 posted on 08/30/2006 9:36:08 PM PDT by grey_whiskers
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To: grey_whiskers; taxed2death
I thought relativity said that there is no preferred inertial reference frame.

By arranging to act simultaneously, they placed themselves in the same reference frame.

BTW, could that IRF be described as "approximately SunTime + [(1/c) X 1AU]" ? '-)

Regards!

122 posted on 08/31/2006 4:57:57 AM PDT by TXnMA ("Allah": Satan's current alias...)
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