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Re: "If you sit on a pretty girl's lap for an hour, it seems like a minute. ...

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The Starmaker wrote:
> 
> "If you sit on a pretty girl's lap for an hour, it seems like a minute.
> If you sit on a hot stove for a minute, it seems like an hour." -Albert
> Einstein
> 
> I'll explain what dis means...
> 
> The operative word is "seems".
> 
> There is no clock that exist
> which reads a minute as an hour, or
> an hour as a minute.
> 
> So, Albert Einstein must be
> using a different type of clock...
> 
> a body clock.

So, if you use two clocks in any experiment...you need to include the
body clock also, otherwise it will not be...relative.


-- 
The Starmaker -- To question the unquestionable, ask the unaskable,
 to think the unthinkable, mention the unmentionable, say the unsayable,
and challenge
 the unchallengeable.

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"If you sit on a pretty girl's lap for an hour, it seems like a minute. ... The Starmaker <starmaker@ix.netcom.com> - 2023-06-21 09:25 -0700
  Re: "If you sit on a pretty girl's lap for an hour, it seems like a minute. ... The Starmaker <starmaker@ix.netcom.com> - 2023-06-22 09:17 -0700

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