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Old January 30th 08 posted to sci.physics.relativity
Ockham[_2_]
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Default GPS CLOCK PARADOX


"Randy Poe" wrote in message
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| On Jan 30, 11:27 am, "Ockham" wrote:
| "The Ghost In The Machine" wrote in
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| | In sci.physics.relativity, Jeckyl
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| | wrote
| | on Wed, 30 Jan 2008 21:28:28 +1100
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| | "Ockham" wrote in message
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| | "snapdragon31" wrote in message
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| | On Jan 29, 8:54 pm, Randy Poe wrote:
| | On Jan 29, 8:14 pm, HW@....(Dr. Henri Wilson) wrote:
| |
| | According to relativists, GPS clocks GAIN 38us per day on the
ground
| | clock.
| | That is due to two components, 45us for gravity and -7us for
| relative
| | speed.
| |
| | Accordingly, an observer (OO) in GPS orbit would see the GC
LOSING
| 52us
| | per
| | day.
| |
| | After one year, the OO would calculate that the OC was about
19ms
| ahead
| | of the
| | GC.
| | However, the GO would calculate that his GC was only 13ms
behind.
| |
| | What happens when the clocks are reunited?
| | Who is right?
| |
| | Two people drive different routes from city A to
| | city B. When they are reunited, one odometer reads
| | 220 km and the other reads 230 km. Which one is
| | right?
| |
| | - Randy
| |
| | | According to relativity, both odometer readings are wrong. They
do
| | | not represent the true distance of the routes travelled because
of
| the
| | | length contraction effect.
| | | According to Newton's law, both odometer readings are right.
| |
| | | The GPS clock paradox is a variation of the twin paradox, so no
valid
| | | solution.
| |
| | The paradox resides in the third postulate.
| |
| | Androcles .. we've told you .. there is no third postulate
| |
| | Yes there is; it's not usually expressed as a postulate, but
| | it is a simple one:
| |
| | - If a TWLS be conducted between a source and a moving mirror,
| | then the time taken (as observed by the source) of the
| | light beam from source to mirror and back to source is
| | exactly twice that of the time taken from source to
| | mirror. In other words, t_AB = t_BA.
|
| Not true, the reflected beam will be doppler shifted.
|
| Yes, both wavelength and frequency experience a doppler shift.

Nope.
|
| That's how doppler radar works.
| Since c1 = lamba1 * f outbound and c2 = lambda2 * f inbound
| it follows that c1 c2.
|
| How does that follow without a statement about
| how both lambda and f shift?

It was explained to you using a standing wave. That you don't
understand Galilean relativity is is your problem.

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