"Cousin Ricky" <ric### [at] yahoocom> schreef in bericht 
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> "Thomas de Groot" <t.d### [at] internlDOTnet> wrote:
>> A problem with the trap is, I believe, that time can leak out along the
>> anchors as they are not insulated. So, this means that World Time is 
>> getting
>> behind on Real Time on a daily basis. Not so good. I think my own watch 
>> is
>> more reliable.
>
> Leakage is inevitable, according to the 2nd law of tempodynamics.  The
> excess time cancels out the space that leaks away from the Earth in its
> orbit.  (You wouldn't want time and space to be mismatched, would you?)
> GPS satellites very carefully figure time leakage into their calculations
> (http://www.astronomy.ohio-state.edu/~pogge/Ast162/Unit5/gps.html), for
> example.  I'm surprised you didn't know this.  :-)
>
>
Well... you know, my courses in tempodynamics were a long time ago, and 
mostly I fell asleep within the first minute, so...
That piece about GPS satellites is an eyeopener to me!

Thomas

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