Subject: RE: (urth) probable distance from Urth to Bleen
Date: Mon, 2 Dec 2002 18:04:40 -0700
From: "Dan'l Danehy-Oakes" 

Jerry Friedman wrote...

> --- Dan'l Danehy-Oakes  wrote:
> > > Um, no, Jerry . . . when the Whorl is at rest, the Whorl
[etc.]

No I didn't!


> Thanks, Blattid.  I probably shouldn't mention that I have a=20
> Ph. D. in physics, since then people might stop arguing with=20
> me about physics, and as my students could tell you, I do=20
> make mistakes.

Gawrsh ... a real physicist. That's what we need around here.
Me, I can just about wade in Meissner, Thorne, & Wheeler without
getting my feet wet, I gaze at the curly-symbols in admiration
and wish I had gone beyond Diff E.


> There's an interesting and comprehensible discussion of the=20
> twin paradox at . =20

Neat. Looks like I made a bit of a blodge in my last reply
to Mantis ... kind of ignored the whole question of accelerating
reference frames. Ooohhh well.=20

--A Mildly Chastened Blattid


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