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Re: Location

From Thomas Heger <ttt_heg@web.de>
Newsgroups sci.physics.relativity
Subject Re: Location
Date 2024-05-27 08:46 +0200
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Am Sonntag000026, 26.05.2024 um 07:59 schrieb Maciej Wozniak:
> W dniu 26.05.2024 o 07:40, Thomas Heger pisze:
>> Am Freitag000024, 24.05.2024 um 21:05 schrieb neus:
>>>
>>> Given three or four coordinates one can find most things in space.
>>>
>>> What if those coordinates are jittery, due to the ripples in 
>>> spacetime, caused by gravity waves, how does one find an electron.
>>
>> Coordinates always refer to a coordinate system.
>>
>> A coordinate system has a zero point and a number of axes, which are 
>> somehow normed and defined.
> 
> Taking it short - coordinates are tools, designed mainly
> to locate things, and, just like other tools, con work
> in some cases and can't work in some other cases.
> 

Well, more or less.
Coordinate systems are man-made constructs and only imaginary.

The points in space are actually real, but carry no tags (or similar) 
which tell the coordinates.

Sinse the points don't know where they are, we can measure their 
location only in repect to something else.

This 'something else' is what we usually use to define a coordinate system.


TH


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