Darren New wrote:
> You can put an atomic clock on Southwest Airlines and measure the error 
> you caused at the other end by being out of the gravity well and 
> traveling at velocity.
> 
> You can just leave one in the basement and one at the top of a 
> skyscraper for a couple months and measure the difference.

Nahhh, that just shows the clocks are inaccurate, with moving them, 
uh...jostling the atoms so they vibrate differently.

...yeah!

> Assuming X and Y are both the same distance from Z when you start 
> counting, why wouldn't they? Even with regular waves, that'll happen.

Well, sure, if you make *that* particular assumption...but the example I 
was reading didn't specify, so I was confused.

Still am.  Observation being one thing and actuality being another, 
things do happen simultaneously.  Saying that they don't because you 
can't have an 'outside' frame of reference is hubris, imo.  Like saying 
nothing in the universe exists outside the radius of light being able to 
travel since the big bang, with the observer (us) at the centre.  It's 
the whole earth-centric universe all over again.

--
Tim Cook
http://empyrean.freesitespace.net

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