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Re: What has your shitty revolution changed

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On 10/25/2026 02:34 PM, J. J. Lodder wrote:
> Python <python@cccp.invalid> wrote:
>
>> Maciej,
>>
>>> Before the idiot came - clocks (mainly pendulums) were adjusted
>>> to indicate t'=t
>>
>> Yes.
>>
>> And after Einstein, clocks are still adjusted to realize a chosen time
>> scale.
>>
>> Nobody disputes this.
>
> Maciej has got even that wrong.
> In Einstein's day, so 1905-1915, there was nothing to compare,
> because there was only one 'master clock'.
> (the rotation of the Earth)
>
> Pendulum clocks, accurate to at best a fraction of a second per day,
> were adjusted on a daily basis to the rotation of the Earth
> by observating stellar transits at observatories.
> Pendulum clocks at one observatory were in sync with pendulum clocks at
> another observatory only because both were synchronisd to the Earth.
>
> Einstein could only dream of clocks that would be accurate enough
> to verify relativity directly.
> It would take the development of atomic clocks after WWII
> to achieve that. (as you have explained many times already)
>
> All of his harping on pendulum clocks in the context of relativity
> is pure, and irrelevant bullshit,
>
> Jan
>
>
>
>


Also there are quasar clocks and otherwise the cosmic clockworks,
more than one class of clock, about eternity more than imminity.


Not sure if "imminity" is a "Scrabble" winner, ....

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What has your shitty revolution changed Maciej Woźniak <mlwozniak@wp.pl> - 2026-10-23 10:40 +0200
  Re: What has your shitty revolution changed Python <python@cccp.invalid> - 2026-10-23 09:03 +0000
    Re: What has your shitty revolution changed Maciej Woźniak <mlwozniak@wp.pl> - 2026-10-23 12:25 +0200
      Re: What has your shitty revolution changed Python <python@cccp.invalid> - 2026-10-23 10:27 +0000
        Re: What has your shitty revolution changed Maciej Woźniak <mlwozniak@wp.pl> - 2026-10-23 12:33 +0200
          Re: What has your shitty revolution changed Python <python@cccp.invalid> - 2026-10-23 10:34 +0000
            Re: What has your shitty revolution changed Maciej Woźniak <mlwozniak@wp.pl> - 2026-10-23 12:44 +0200
              Re: What has your shitty revolution changed Python <python@cccp.invalid> - 2026-10-23 10:49 +0000
                Re: What has your shitty revolution changed Maciej Woźniak <mlwozniak@wp.pl> - 2026-10-23 12:50 +0200
                Re: What has your shitty revolution changed Python <python@cccp.invalid> - 2026-10-23 10:55 +0000
                Re: What has your shitty revolution changed Maciej Woźniak <mlwozniak@wp.pl> - 2026-10-23 12:59 +0200
                Re: What has your shitty revolution changed Python <python@cccp.invalid> - 2026-10-23 11:03 +0000
                Re: What has your shitty revolution changed Maciej Woźniak <mlwozniak@wp.pl> - 2026-10-23 13:08 +0200
                Re: What has your shitty revolution changed Python <python@cccp.invalid> - 2026-10-23 11:12 +0000
    Re: What has your shitty revolution changed The Starmaker <starmaker@ix.netcom.com> - 2026-10-24 10:45 -0700
      Re: What has your shitty revolution changed "Paul B. Andersen" <paul.b.andersen@paulba.no> - 2026-10-24 20:54 +0200
        Re: What has your shitty revolution changed Sean Bahtiyarov <iy@nrhtbi.ru> - 2026-10-25 17:54 +0000
    Re: What has your shitty revolution changed nospam@de-ster.demon.nl (J. J. Lodder) - 2026-10-25 22:34 +0100
      Re: What has your shitty revolution changed Maciej Woźniak <mlwozniak@wp.pl> - 2026-10-25 22:57 +0100
        Re: What has your shitty revolution changed Ross Finlayson <ross.a.finlayson@gmail.com> - 2026-10-25 15:01 -0700
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        Re: What has your shitty revolution changed nospam@de-ster.demon.nl (J. J. Lodder) - 2026-10-26 12:14 +0100
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