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Re: non-relative angular velocity

In response to David Bowman, at 06:59 AM 2/3/00 -0600, brian whatcott wrote:

This looks like a statement that there is an absolute zero for
angular velocity in celestial terms - wasn't this Mach's position?

David's right -- and we can leave out the "celestial" qualifier.

There _is_ an absolute zero for angular velocity. This was known long
before Mach. Certainly Foucault knew this in the mid nineteenth century.