GTR

John K Clark (johnkc@well.com)
Mon, 6 Jul 1998 11:35:11 -0700 (PDT)

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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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