Re: Non-constant time rate

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nuny@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>   The constraints are much more severe than I thought, so I must
> answer "very little, actually". As Wayne Throop says you first must
> have something fundamental against which to correlate the rate of time
> in order to know that it has changed. In this Universe we have
> gravitation to correlate it with, but not in your hypothetical
> Newtonian Absolute Universe. We also have such things as the relations
> between frequency, wavelength, and velocity for light, but they're
> _empirical_ relations; c in particular has no theoretical requirement
> to have its specific known value.

You're right, both of you - I realize now that I need to refine the
requirements, and that it's hard to do and also maintain internal
consistency. Is there a technology in the relevant time period that
could reliably generate and measure high-frequency electrical pulses?
(how high? megahertz? gigahertz?)

>   This is especially true in a zone large enough to contain the solar
> system, populated by people at an early 20th century tech level.
> Absent something like improbably detailed "religious" documentation or
> an oral tradition accurate to several decimal places, why would the
> population even think there might be anything amiss?

The original idea is that they get some tiny bits of external knowledge
/ hints about their environment (something similar to the religious
angle you proposed, but not exactly) but I see I'll maybe have to
re-think this angle also.


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