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<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>Your group certainly has many creative ideas
regarding Einstein and Relativity. Unfortunately, nearly all of the
assumptions are not correct.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>The Earth provides wonderful evidence for us,
moostly because we have really accurate data rwegarding its (Equatorial)
diameter and its precise sidereal rotation period.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>Specifically regarding your
discussions:</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>Someone standing at the North Pole does not have
"velocity" nor "acceleration" and so the Lorentz-Fitzgerald (beta) factor is
exactly ONE. (velocity is ZERO).</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>Fine. The more interesting situation is for a
man standing at the Equator. He DOES have a precisely known (v) there
and so it is easy to calculate the Time Dilation Factor to be <STRONG><FONT
size=5 face="Times New Roman">0.999 999 999 998 796
560</FONT></STRONG></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>And so everyone ASSUMES that he would EXPERIENCE
Time Dilation there. There are TWO major errors in those
assumptions. (a) HE would not experience any Relativity issues, and only
the OBSERVER at the North Pole (motionless) would SEE any such effects.
Nearly everyone is wrong about this error.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>(b) the other error in assumptions is due to
everyone IGNORING General Relativity, which happens to have its own time-rate
effect. It is called the Equivalency Principle. (Surprisingly) this
effect happens to be the OPPOSITE of Special Relativity's Time Dilation.
Thaht calculation (onn Earth) is also easy and precise to do, and it is
<STRONG><FONT size=5 face="Times New Roman">1.000 000 000 001 203
440</FONT></STRONG></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><STRONG><FONT size=5></FONT></STRONG> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>Oddly enough, since BOTH Relativity time-rate
effects must constantly apply to our guy att the Equator, we must MULTIPLY these
two effects to find the ACTUAL Relativity time-rate effect for that guy at the
Equator. That simple product is EXACTLY ONE.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>In other words, the ACTUAL effect due to BOTH forms
of Relativity exactly cancel each other out. There is NO DIFFERENCE in
time rate between the guy at the North Pole nd anyone at the Equator, or
anywhere else on Earth.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>Only when someone is in a Non-Inertial Reat Frame,
that is, accelerating, will an OBSERVER see any time-rate effects.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>A complete explanation is at <A
href="http://mb-soft.com/public4/dilation.html">http://mb-soft.com/public4/dilation.html</A></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>Carl Johnson</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>(A Theoretical Physicist, educated at the
University of Chicago)</FONT></DIV>
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