A clock that can detect tiny shifts in the flow of time itself

Re:A clock that can detect tiny shifts in the flow of time i... by AnimalMuppet on Monday November 03, 2014 @04:51PM (#8553778)

You're forgetting that Everest isn't on the equator. Distance from the center of the earth doesn't matter; distance from the axis of rotation matters. So you need to multiply Everest's (height + radius) by the cosine of its latitude.

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Re:A clock that can detect tiny shifts in the flow of time i... by HCIdivision17 on Monday November 03, 2014 @05:01PM (#8553841)

You're entirely correct, and I'm going to modify my answer to a convenient lie (in the true style of a physicist).

The point stands, but now I'm interested in what kind of cones we could make where relative heights and latitudes yield identical velocities. Prolly as useful a question as most XKCD What If? notes :)

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