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Old February 20th 12, 03:58 PM posted to rec.aviation.soaring
Don Johnstone[_4_]
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Default Gravity or Space-Time?

At 10:46 20 February 2012, Scott wrote:
On 2-19-2012 15:48, JohnDeRosa wrote:
Bizzare title right?

It is winter here in Chicago and no soaring to speak of - except for
the Bald Eagles that have just in the last few weeks been seen in the
Fox River valley for the first time in many, many years.

So I was watching a very interesting PBS Nova episode on YouTube about
the latest news and theories in Physics. One of the concepts
mentioned is that gravity works by warping the space-time continuum.
Whoa. Because gliders are always falling because of "gravity", I
thought you all might want to study up during this slack season.
Maybe it will help me fly better. Yeah...right.

Enjoy - John

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wy9gXKwRpXc


Dunno...I think gliders themselves naturally affect the space-time
continuum. An hour in a glider is considerably shorter than an hour at
work.


According to Einstein that is relativity in action, "It's like when you sit
next to a pretty girl for one hour, and it feels like an minute, as opposed
to when you sit on a hot stove for one minute, and it feels like an hour."
That is relativity