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An immortal fumble by Ken Seto (16-Sep-2008)

Ah... The GPS second
On Sep 14, 4:54 pm, "Paul B. Andersen"
<paul.b.ander...@guesswhatuia.no> wrote:
> Dirk Van de moortel skrev:
> 
>> Spaceman <space...@yourclockmalfunctioned.duh> wrote in message
>> etmdnV1UB6LT_1DVnZ2dnUVZ_qnin...@comcast.com
>>> The twins paradox states the clock comes back with
>>> less time shown on the face.
>>> Less time = less ticks of the clock.
> 
>>> If we have the at home clock send out wavepeaks
>>> for each tick, why would the traveling clock not get
>>> some amount of wavepeaks by the time it came home?
>>> The answer.....It would not if it actually counted the
>>> at home ticks the entire time.
>>> As the clock left the planet the wavepeak rate would
>>> slow down and as it came back it would speed up.
>>> When it returned if it actually counted the wavepeaks
>>> the entire time, it would have counted the same
>>> wavepeaks as the at home clock.
> 
>>> So,
>>> Where did the "missing" ticks go?
>>> Why is the traveling clock ignoring the at home tick count?
> 
>>> It is simple.
>>> The clock malfunctioned in it's counting method.
>>> :)
> 
>>> --
>>> James M Driscoll Jr
>>> Creator of the Clock Malfunction Theory
>>> Spaceman
> 
>> Yet the Creator of the Clock Malfunction Theory cannot,
>> dares not, and will not answer the simplest and most
>> fundamental question about his own theory:
>> https://home.deds.nl/~dvdm/dirk/Physics/Fumbles/YesNo.html
> 
>> Dirk Vdm
> 
> It is remarkable the GPS can work so well when all the satellite
> clocks are malfunctioning, isn't it? :-)

Ah....but the GPS second is re-defined to have 4.15 more ticks of the
Cs atom. This is done to make a GPS second to have the same absolute
time content as a ground clock second.

Ken Seto
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