[1] GPS: the 38 microsec/day drift = (M_e /h) * (2 G/c^2) * 86400
----------- the LONGIE -------------
[2] "GPS is a satellite based navigation system. It uses a digital signal at ...
are 21 operational satellites, and three spares, in orbit at **about** 20000 km,"
== so it says in == www.fas.org/man/dod-101/navy/docs/es310/GPS/GPS.htm
[3] "... nearly circular orbits with an altitude of **about** 20200 km (12552 miles)
above ... At least 4 GPS satellites are always in view of the TOPEX/Poseidon"
== so it says in == www.tsgc.utexas.edu/spacecraft/topex/pod.html ,
[4] "The orbits of the GPS satellites. ... With a **mean** earth
radius of 6360 km, the height of the orbits is then **about** 20200 km. ...
Orbits in this height are referred to as MEO - **medium** earth orbit."
== so it says in == www.kowoma.de/en/gps/orbits.htm
[5] The GPS satellites circle the Earth at an altitude of about 20000 km
and complete two full orbits every day. The GPS satellites are not in a" ...
== so it says in == cfa-www.harvard.edu/space_geodesy/ATLAS/gps.html
[6] http://science.nasa.gov/RealTime/JTrack/3D/JTrack3D.html
Now check the J-Track 3D applet and see where the GPS SVs are roaming.
*********** the Estimates ************
One will discover that this and all those "about, mean and medium" makes
it a joke to argue and "calculate" the 38 microsec/day to a degree of accuracy
the REL-fanatics love to brag about. The number of contributing satellites,
the type and shape of the orbit and the earth, etc., etc., are influences, so
large, that it makes the use of SR/GR nothing more than an intellectual
masturbation by Einstein disciples who need 27 up to 100 strokes to get
to their "relativity corrected" orgasm of 38 microsec/day which they claim
"cannot be achieved with non-relativistic physics", as they've shown in ...
http://groups.google.com/group/sci.physics/msg/6d96e4b73361f250
http://relativity.livingreviews.org/Articles/lrr-2003-1/index.html
Now, enter Tom Potter and Androcles/Ian Parker, 2 physicists with their
engineering sense, to give the same "38" answer, each in his own, different
way, but using ONLY 4 to 5 lines of calcs INCLUDING verbal explanations,
ELEGANTLY, when compared to the pathetic SR/GR 27-100 step route.
Physics at its bonafide experimental side is to be revered. It is a humble
and clean science, because all it does or attempts to, is to MEASURE
how many times our ***arbitrarily*** chosen measuring units do fit into
the object of observations/investigation [7]. In this case here any decent
engineer, let alone physicist, can quickly see, in ONE FELL SWOOP,
that all what matters in such an approximation is the mass of the earth,
M_e, and the signal height traveled, h, to show in a single line that
[1] (M_e /h ) * (2 G/c^2) * 86400 = 38 microsec
the daily time drift, wherein M_e = the earth's mass, h = the orbit height
over the surface, G = Newton, c = Lightspeed & the 86400 sec/day.
******** the Lamentations ***************
This "38" issue is one of the many examples in which the relativists
are their own worst enemies... by overselling relativity. A sober view of
the _usefulness_ of SR/GR (REL) may be summarized as:
Anybody who works in
[8] mil/indust. Eng, R&D....................."does not need REL shit"
[9] *.edu & for R-grants......................"does need REL, - No shit"
[10] Promo, Sales & Movies............. "loves REL by the shitload"
[11] Jews protect it as their cultural heritage whether "REL is shit or not".
Furthermore, it is of no wonder that the Bavarians [12] have made
GR/SR courses NOT mandatory any longer in their Univs physics
curriculum since/in 1996 and just a few months ago I glanced at a
post from a [13] US student who wondered what book to study about
GR since it was no longer offered at his University in the US.... [14]
Androcles posted yesterday that even the conservative Royal Society
http://www.newscientist.com/channel/opinion/mg18825282.800.html
has now voted Einstein OUT also... and yet in these NG's there are
these loud fanatical disciples infected with Einsteinitis and even
claim that attacks are motivated by "anti-semitism" and jealously.
The facts are clear: Such hung-up and stuck up disciples are jealous
that the world has moved on since 1905/1916 and that the evolution
of physics, and science in general, does continue... with these left
behind relativity fans who came to the Usenet, a 24/7 cyber party, where
they represent glaringly that they are the notorious prodigies that failed
and now have come to these NGs to die.... ('Tis to Savain's delight)
ahahaha... Them times are changing, ahahahaha... AHAHAHAHA....
But one aphorism will not fade away as do Einstein's cons now:
[15] "Experiments are the only means of knowledge at our
disposal. The rest is poetry, imagination." -- Max Planck [7]
Therefore: "Let'em sing!.....all of them!....it's a beautiful choir!
Thanks for the laughs though.......ahahahahah....really!.....
ahahaha... ahahaha... Happy 2006 you all!......
ahahaha... ahahahanson
I doubt John Parker wishes to be associated with Ian Parker,
or vice versa. All names are fictitious to protect the guilty.
The alte Hexenmeister.
Dead right Hanson.
GR comes up with a blue shift of 5.2 parts in 10^10 for light falling from GPS
satellites to earth. NM produces EXACTLY the same figure if it assumes light
accelerates down a gravity well like all matter.
Einstein had to distort space to prop up his religious belief that light speed
was always 'c'. What followed was the greatest mathematical hoax of all time.
Where GRians go wrong is that they relate their 'relativistic blue shift' to
the ticks of orbiting clocks. However, in the absence of PA's famous tick
fairies, the number of ticks emitted PER ORBIT must be the same whether counted
by the OO or the GO.
The plain fact is, atomic clocks physically change slightly when launched into
free fall orbits where they cut through the Earth's fields.
Their rates in orbit are observed to have physically changed when measured
against the original earth clock, in the original earth frame by the original
earth observer.
> ******** the Lamentations ***************
>
>This "38" issue is one of the many examples in which the relativists
>are their own worst enemies... by overselling relativity. A sober view of
>the _usefulness_ of SR/GR (REL) may be summarized as:
>Anybody who works in
>[8] mil/indust. Eng, R&D....................."does not need REL shit"
>[9] *.edu & for R-grants......................"does need REL, - No shit"
>[10] Promo, Sales & Movies............. "loves REL by the shitload"
>[11] Jews protect it as their cultural heritage whether "REL is shit or not".
>
HW.
www.users.bigpond.com/hewn/index.htm
More whining.
Still no proof against SR or GR, just more of your whining.