Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.3 4.3bsd-beta 6/6/85; site ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!ucbvax!brahms!weemba From: weemba@brahms.BERKELEY.EDU (Matthew P. Wiener) Newsgroups: net.physics Subject: Re: Relative Rotation Message-ID: <12690@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU> Date: Wed, 26-Mar-86 21:30:51 EST Article-I.D.: ucbvax.12690 Posted: Wed Mar 26 21:30:51 1986 Date-Received: Fri, 28-Mar-86 05:45:28 EST References: <12603@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU> <875@lanl.ARPA> <2036@orca.UUCP> Sender: usenet@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Reply-To: weemba@brahms.UUCP (Matthew P. Wiener) Organization: University of California, Berkeley Lines: 27 Keywords: Bogus In article <2036@orca.UUCP> kendalla@orca.UUCP (Kendall Auel) writes: >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. You do not know what you are talking about. Please reread my past postings. > 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...." You even got the JOKE wrong! When asked to consider the question of whether all odd numbers other than 1 are prime, the mathematician said 3 is prime, 5 is prime, 7 is prime, 9 is not, whoops, statement is false. The physicist said 3 is prime, 5 is prime, 7 is prime, 9 is not, 11 is, 13 is, so within experimental error the statement is true. The engineer went 3 is prime, 5 is prime, 7 is prime, 9 is prime, 11 is prime, ..., duh, yeah the statement is true. ucbvax!brahms!weemba Matthew P Wiener/UCB Math Dept/Berkeley CA 94720