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Date: Tue, 3 Dec 2002 15:26:00 -0800 (PST) From: Jerry FriedmanSubject: Re: (urth) Professor Jerry lines 'em up --- Michael Andre-Driussi wrote: > Jerry Friedman wrote: > >Thanks, Blattid. I probably shouldn't mention that I have a > >Ph. D. in physics, since then people might stop arguing with me > >about physics, and as my students could tell you, I do make > >mistakes. > > Well call me bushwacked. I apologize. When I thought about it, I thought that my reasons for not mentioning my Ph. D. were better than my reasons for revealing it, so I probably should have stayed "in the closet". > That works, but I still like my suggestion of "Urth time" and "Whorl time". To me, that's precisely what you're talking about--how long it's been according to timekeeping on Urth and on the _Whorl_. By the way, we covered S. R. in my Conceptual Physics class today, and I used rough approximations to your numbers as an example, with a plug for TBotLS. Thanks! [After they allowed me to escape with a Ph. D., my only association with physics has been teaching it at community colleges, so I'm not a professor--or a real physicist, as Dan'l called me.] Jerry Friedman __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail Plus - Powerful. Affordable. Sign up now. http://mailplus.yahoo.com --