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Quote from "Effectuationism (Sept 2009)" http://www.effectuationism.com/ "Eff. Nav. System v SR and GPS ... Eff. Nav. System: The Effectuationism Navigation System (ENS) is basically a Cartesian co-ordinate system, provided with a Standard Event Speed (SES) to determine the rate of events. A rocket or satellite can be developed into a frame of reference, necessarily with the co-ordinates x_0, y_0, z_0. Let’s call it FoR-r. A body, such as the Earth, could be given co-ordinates in such a system. If FoR-r sees a feature of that body recurring at regular intervals then it can infer that the body is rotating and that the feature would have a path in such a co-ordinate system. To observe that path or trajectory, FoR-r would have to have ‘eyes’ or rockets at some remove from itself in the system and forming loops around the Earth. To develop ... ***** The Einstein and the Eddington ***** The Einstein and the Eddington Were counting up their score The Einstein's card showed ninety-eight And Eddington's was more, And both lay bunkered in the trap And both stood up and swore. I hate to see, the Einstein said Such quantities of sand; Just why they placed a bunker here I cannot understand If one could smouth this landscape out I think it would be grand The time has come, said Eddington, To talk of many things; Of cubes and clocks and meter-sticks, And why a pendulum swings, And how far space is out of plumb, And whether time has wings. And space it has dimensions four, Instead of only three. The square on the hypotenuse Ain't what it used to be. It grieves me sore, the things you've done To plane geometry. You hold that time is badly warped, That ever light is bent; I think I get the idea there, If this is what you meant: The mail the postman brings today, Tomorrow will be sent. The shortest line, Einstein replied, Is not the one that's straight; It curves around upon itself, Much like a figure of eight, And if you go too rapidly You will arrive too late. But easter day is Christmas time And far away is near, And two and two is more than four And over here is near. You may be right, said Eddington, It seems a trifle queer. -- W. H. Williams |
