Re:NIST Pair of Atomic Clocks Reveal Einstein's Relativity a...
by thombat on Thursday October 01, 2020 @04:12AM
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ELI5 time - where would a truly uniform gravitational field exist?
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Re:NIST Pair of Atomic Clocks Reveal Einstein's Relativity a...
by mhh__ on Thursday October 01, 2020 @07:31AM
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Nowhere, i.e. if you are in the falling elevator the tennis balls will fall downwards if it's uniform but any real gravitational field (apart from something of infinite radius) will make them converge gradually towards eachother as they fall towards the CoG
Re:NIST Pair of Atomic Clocks Reveal Einstein's Relativity a...
by aardvark179 on Thursday October 01, 2020 @04:31AM
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Nowhere in the real world, but that’s okay since we are dealing with thought experiments. An infinite plane of mass is roughly what you’d need so that the contributions of each element add up to a uniform field.
Re:NIST Pair of Atomic Clocks Reveal Einstein's Relativity a...
by saagarjha on Thursday October 01, 2020 @04:20AM
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Nowhere. Gravity is just inherently radial. (But if you have a very large spread it can look fairly uniform, of course. Especially if your measure of “flat” is actually curved to the same radius.)