Re: [Vo]:Baseball and GR

[Harry Veeder]

Sorry my request was truncated. 

I've never seen it done but can you use
General Relativity to show the path of a thrown ball is parabolic?

Harry

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Re: [Vo]:Three Words That Could Overthrow Physics

>>> Stephen A. Lawrence wrote:
>>> By the way, the derivation of pi from Pythagoras's theorem to which I>>> referred, and the derivation of the area of a circle and volume of a>>> sphere using geometric arguments, are here:>>> >>> http://physicsinsights.org/pi_from_pythagoras-1.html>>> >>> http://physicsinsights.org/sphere-volume-1.html>>> >>> You may not feel these pages actually "explain" anything, of course!>>> :-)  That was, however, part of the reason for putting them together,>>> and perhaps these pages will give you an idea of what I think an>>> explanation is.  Or maybe not...
Nice derivations.
I've never seen it done but can you use
General Relativ!
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