[FRIAM] Space-Time Issues

2011-09-25 Thread plissaman
My superficial knowledge of the subject comes from an A in a grad class at Caltech on Relativity, long before GPS.  No problem in measuring interval between events at the same place, with a relativistic correction. The issue here is synchronization of clocks at different points in space (CERN

Re: [FRIAM] Space-Time Issues

2011-09-25 Thread Owen Densmore
At the recent Friam meeting, it was mentioned that a super-nova in a distant galaxy had light and neutrinos arriving at the same instant. -- Owen On Sun, Sep 25, 2011 at 11:27 AM, plissa...@comcast.net wrote: My superficial knowledge of the subject comes from an A in a grad class at