XPost: sci.physics.relativity   
   From: bill.sloman@ieee.org   
      
   On 5/03/2026 9:57 pm, Thomas Heger wrote:   
   > Am Dienstag000003, 03.03.2026 um 13:14 schrieb Bill Sloman:   
      
      
      
   >>> But we have hints already, that time behaves in strange ways, if the   
   >>> universe is observed from very remote locations (like e.g. by the   
   >>> Pioneer probe).   
   >>>   
   >>> (This btw was my personal explanation for the so called 'Pioneer   
   >>> anomaly'   
   >> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pioneer_anomaly   
   >>   
   >> That wasn't "time" behaving in a strange way, it was a very small   
   >> unexpected deceleration of the space craft, which turns out to   
   >> explicable in terms of the asymmetric thermal radiation from the   
   >> radioisotope thermoelectric generator.   
   >   
   > Sure, but 'unexpected acceleration' looks pretty much like 'time   
   > behaving in a strange way'.   
      
   Until you work out what was actually going on.   
      
   Invoking imaginary explanations for something that looks perfectly   
   explicable when looked at carefully isn't a route to getting taken   
   seriously.   
      
   --   
   Bill Sloman, Sydney   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
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