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|    Luigi Fortunati to All    |
|    Re: Einstein's elevator    |
|    03 May 22 07:58:37    |
      From: fortunati.luigi@gmail.com              Tom Roberts lunedì 02/05/2022 alle ore 17:24:10 ha scritto:       > ....       > These can be statements containing ambiguous words such as "acceleration".       > ambiguous: neither true nor false.              The accelerations of the free-falling elevator towards the center of       the       Earth and of the center of the Earth towards the free-falling elevator       are not ambiguous, because they are observable and measurable in all       references.              >....       > In the first paragraph cited above, objects at rest in the center of       > the ground and at rest in each lift have their own zero accelerations.              The acceleration of the object in the elevator is really (obviously)       null as all the accelerations with respect to themselves are null but       what does it have to do with gravity?              The acceleration of gravity of the object in the elevator is directed       towards the center of the Earth and not towards the elevator!              --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05        * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)    |
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