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An immortal fumble by Androcles (Hexenmeister) (11-Jan-2006)

"Ignorant moron"

"Thomas Heger" <hballo@hotmail.de> wrote in message 
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> "Der alte Hexenmeister" <vanquish@broom.Mickey> schrieb im Newsbeitrag 
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>> "Joe Fischer" <efischer@1g1ou.com> wrote in message
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>>> Put your money where your mouth is,
>>>
>>>    http://www.einstein.caltech.edu/pub.html
>>>
>>> Joe Fischer
>>>
>>
>> Okay.
>> "Man schließt daraus, daß eine am Erdäquator befindliche Unruhuhr
>> um einen sehr kleinen Betrag langsamer laufen muß als eine genau
>> gleich beschaffene, sonst gleichen Bedingungen unterworfene, an
>> einem Erdpole befindliche Uhr." -- Einstein
>>
>> Thence we conclude that a sundial at the equator must go more
>> slowly, by a very small amount, than a precisely similar sundial
>> situated at one of the poles under otherwise identical conditions.
>
> german:          english:
> _________________________
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> Sonnenuhr ~ sundial
> Unruhuhr ~ clock with an escapement
>
>
> thomas heger

1700 AD:          1800 AD:          1900 AD:             2000 AD:
sundial           clock          pocket watch          cell phone

Ignorant moron:
1900 AD:           2000AD:
Einstein             Heger
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