From: John K Clark (johnkc@well.com)
Date: Mon Jul 06 1998 - 12:35:11 MDT
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On Mon, 6 Jul 1998 Technotranscendence <neptune@mars.superlink.net> Wrote:
>This would only be so if the gravitation field of anything was
>uniform. Ergo, only if you measured gravity at one point on
>Earth might you think it was equivalent to a 1g acceleration in
>a spaceship. If you measured it at two points on the Earth's
>surface, you would notice, provided your instruments were very
>precise, that the direction of force converged.
True, such tidal effects would exist unless you were on the surface of a flat
infinite plane and admittedly such objects seem to be rather few and far
between lately.
John K Clark johnkc@well.com
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