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From: ins_adsf@jhunix.UUCP (David S Fry)
Newsgroups: net.origins,net.physics
Subject: Re: Bogus Physics
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Date: Sun, 2-Mar-86 18:32:30 EST
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>> Motion is relative *only* when considering inertial reference frames,
>> as determined by Lawrence transformations.
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>> Put simplistically (as we must when posting to this newsgroup),
>> if the universe spun around the earth, it would fly apart,
>> and even nearby galaxies would be traveling faster than light.
>> Similarly, the earth revolves around the sun,
>> and the solar system revolves within our galaxy.
>> These are not arbitrary conventions, they are facts.
>> The amount of bogus physics in this newsgroup is astonishing.
>>                       Karl Dahlke    


    I don't intend to get involved in the evolution argument, but if the 
universe would fly apart when rotating about the earth, it will just as
surely disintegrate when rotating about the sun.  So that reasoning falls
apart.  Nothing really rotates strictly about anything. 
    It is correct that Einstein spoke about inertial reference frames, but
a note to Mr. Dahlke:  name calling begins at home.  Refering to Lorentz
transformations as "Lawrence transformations" shows that your knowledge
in this field is also "bogus".


                        - David Fry
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                          Johns Hopkins University
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