Astronomy/Mustang?
Clarence Wood
clarencewood at centuryinter.net
Fri May 7 23:57:53 GMT 1999
Thanks for the Gravity Probe B web site!!
Incidentally, F1 cars do 0-100-0 in 6 sec.; have heard that this years cars do it in 5 sec.
At 10:27 AM 5/7/99 -0700, you wrote:
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><<<This principle caused him to propose that light is bent by
>the sun, and although that particular experiment was flawed, it's been
>established since that gravity does in fact cause light to bend.>
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><You mention that the Sun warps space...
>If Space is a LACK of everything, thus meaning that it is truly NOTHING,
>then how can NOTHING be WARPED??>>>
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>I didn't read the beginning of this thread, but I'd deduce that you've never
>heard of "Dark Matter". Dark Matter is the term used to describe the "nothing"
>of outer space, and it's been accepted that over 90% of the Universe is composed
>of Dark Matter. Astronomers can't really positively determine what it's composed
>of yet, but we know it exists by the way it bends light coming from VERY distant
>galaxies (like ones 4 billion+ light years away, on the fringe of Hubble's
>optical limits). It's an astronomy thing, but it has far reaching implications
>beyond that particular scientific field. Also, the top post eludes to the fact
>that in space, the shortest distance between two points is actually a curved
>line. Newton vs. Einstein will be decided in space, when Gravity Probe B gets
>launched (late '99 or '00?). For info on Gravity Probe B (kick ass experiments)
>check out http://einstein.stanford.edu/gen_int/story_of_gpb/gpbstory1.html
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>Anybody get their new Summit catalog in the mail? How about that "QuickStang"
>car? Pretty damn ugly, but capable of 1000hp. BTW, what was the name of that
>800hp, 10L Ford Mustang purpose built by SVT a couple years ago? That car set
>the 0-100-0 record...in about 11.3 seconds or so. Yikes.
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>Jason
>'93 SLC
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Clarence Wood
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