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Re: [Phys-l] Does COBE data contradict relativty?



Tim Folkerts wrote:
Doesn't this contradict the principle of relativity (at least the
colloquial expression) - that there is no preferred reference frame?
That there is no way to judge absolute movement?

Let's listen to a devil's advocate:
What if another satellite developed by Korea or Japan, in 20 years' time, obtains different results from COBE?
What if the Earth is found to reverse its direction later?

What if the anisotropy suggest that the inertia mass or invariant mass depends on the direction of travel?
Still too early to tell?


Alphonsus