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>From: mff@hypatia.unh.edu (Matthew F Funke) > Yes, it *must* be accelerating to move around in a circle. No Mathew, sorry, but... It can be a constant angular motion, Clock hands do such all the "time" an accelerating clock hand would be a "very bad clock". and. that little bugger is moving in a "constant angular motion" without any acceleration or decceleration. (unless that clock is bad or malfunctioning) :) a clock is supposed to be a constant counting device. If the count is not constant, the clock goofed it up. not the "second" constants "are supposed to be constant" If you allow a constant to change, you are no longer "using scientific measurement. a second is always a second. and if you find otherwise. you device goofed. simple as that. the mile is always a mile, the second is always a second. That IS science. that is why theories like GR,SR and even QM, are part wrong and "always will be for ever in time". :) James M Driscoll Jr |
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