Path: csiph.com!usenet.blueworldhosting.com!feeder01.blueworldhosting.com!peer01.iad.highwinds-media.com!news.highwinds-media.com!feed-me.highwinds-media.com!border1.nntp.dca1.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!ottix-news.ottix.net!newsswitch.lcs.mit.edu!nntp.TheWorld.com!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: moroney@world.std.spaamtrap.com (Michael Moroney) Newsgroups: sci.physics Subject: Re: Past and proposed experiments deteting absolute motion Date: Tue, 5 Apr 2016 14:02:47 +0000 (UTC) Organization: The World : www.TheWorld.com : Since 1989 Lines: 19 Message-ID: References: <5778fdf7-4797-47f0-a538-8506f4d35651@googlegroups.com> <3ccde0d0-8b1c-4715-9cc6-09e5c809a724@googlegroups.com> <4e90545a-530b-409e-a54f-970ae9ec0b6a@googlegroups.com> <163eab08-e2c0-4940-9fe6-208535bb0c23@googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: shell01.theworld.com X-Trace: pcls7.std.com 1459864967 25085 192.74.137.71 (5 Apr 2016 14:02:47 GMT) X-Complaints-To: abuse@TheWorld.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 5 Apr 2016 14:02:47 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: nn/6.6.5 X-Received-Bytes: 2090 X-Received-Body-CRC: 251685049 Xref: csiph.com sci.physics:568036 kenseto writes: >On Saturday, April 2, 2016 at 9:38:16 AM UTC-4, Sam Wormley wrote: >> On 4/2/16 8:13 AM, kenseto wrote: >> > No idiot.....inside the box is accelerating at g toward the center of the earth. >> >> No Seto, because the box is in free fall, the accelerometer says zero. >> Objects in free fall do not feel their own weight. >No idiot....the accelerometer will say 9.7 meter/sec^2 The accelerometer in a STATIONARY (relative to the earth's surface) will register 9.81 m/s^2, because of gravity, but we're talking about a box in freefall. It will read 0 because it is in freefall. Remember Einstein's elevator gedanken? Someone inside a closed elevator cannot tell the difference between zero gravity, and freefall in a gravitational field.