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From: kendalla@orca.UUCP (Kendall Auel)
Newsgroups: net.physics
Subject: Re: Relative Rotation
Message-ID: <2036@orca.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 25-Mar-86 20:47:19 EST
Article-I.D.: orca.2036
Posted: Tue Mar 25 20:47:19 1986
Date-Received: Thu, 27-Mar-86 07:36:43 EST
References: <12603@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU> <875@lanl.ARPA>
Reply-To: kendalla@orca.UUCP (Kendall Auel)
Organization: Tektronix, Wilsonville OR
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Keywords: Bogus

In article <875@lanl.ARPA> jlg@a.UUCP (Jim Giles) writes:
>While it is certainly convenient to do one's calculations in a non-rotating
>coordinate system, there also seems to be something physically significant
>about such systems as well.
>
>J. Giles
>Los Alamos

I think the original poster of "bogus physics" revealed why there is
something significant about non-rotating coordinate systems. In a rotating
coordinate system, distant objects are traveling several times the
speed of light. The centrifugal force on all matter not at the center of
the coordinate system would cause the universe to rapidly blow apart.

Math does not necessarily reflect reality. Newton's Laws work very
nicely for most of us, but they don't describe the real universe.

Kendall Auel
Tektronix

	An engineer, a mathematician, and a physicist were asked to
	prove that all odd integers are prime:
	Engineer: "1 is prime. So are 3, 5, and 7. All odd numbers
	           must be prime."
	Mathematician: "1 is prime. 11 and 13 are prime. By induction,
	               all odd numbers are prime."
	Physicist: "1 is prime. 3, 5, and 7 are prime. 9... Experimental
	            error. 11 is prime, 13 is prime...."