Re: [Phys-l] Responses Wanted

[Bernard Cleyet <bernardcleyet@redshift.com>]

I don't follow J's argument to which he refers below.

I thought the earth is falling towards the sun and so is the apple ( in 
addition to wards the earth's centre of gravity), so it falls assuming a 
symmetrical earth and no rotation, straight down.

BTW if the above weren't so, wouldn't a plum-bob not be plum?

bc, maybe confused.

Rauber, Joel wrote:

> Regarding Hewitt's latest Figurin Physics in TPT
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> https://carnot.physics.buffalo.edu/archives/2006/10_2006/msg00466.html
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> Any thoughts?
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> And the contradiction in various historical accounts of the origin of
> the "one and only electron"
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> https://carnot.physics.buffalo.edu/archives/2006/10_2006/msg00625.html
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> John D., I'm particularly curious as to your response regarding this
> post; most particularly Feynman's Nobel lecture; as you said you talked
> to the man himself regarding this.
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