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To: MHGinTN

In the accelerating frame, though, measurement of a circle would get pi. If you were in a frame stationary to an accelerating circle, the circle would look oval (if it were oriented correctly).

I don’t think pi changes with gravity, but that’s an interesting concept.

I was thinking of an area of space where if you measured a circle you’d get 3.00000. Lok at all the physical calculations that involve pi! They’d all be different, including the behavior of inductors.


13 posted on 09/02/2010 7:40:35 PM PDT by DBrow
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To: DBrow
I was thinking of an area of space where if you measured a circle you’d get 3.00000.

A Flatlander would be surprised to find that - and it would be possible if his circle is curved in our 3rd dimension, normal to his flat world, like when you hit a tambourine. This is because the Flatlander can measure the diameter only by crawling over the stretched area, without noticing that it is stretched.

22 posted on 09/02/2010 8:07:55 PM PDT by Greysard
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