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Re: non-relative angular velocity



BUT, I remember a 'serious' cosmological research result in the '80's
that claimed to measure the 'inherent' rotation of the universe.

(Didn't understand it THEN, don't understand it NOW either.)


At 8:18 AM -0500 2/3/00, John Denker wrote:


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

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