Re: [Phys-L] To gal or not to Gal.

[Marty Weiss <martweiss@comcast.net>]

Well, when my wife and I were in Pisa last year we thought about getting a timed reservation to climb the tower until the tour guide told us the time on the rez could be for the next day when the ship would have departed for the next port.     I assume Galileo didn't have that problem.    So much for real experiments at the Tower of Pisa.  The modern scientist has to stick to Gedanken.  

By the way... off topic but of interest to anyone traveling there...  the town of Pisa itself is more interesting than the Field of Miracles.


On Sep 26, 2013, at 8:39 AM, Ken Caviness wrote:

> Was this a real experiment, or a thought experiment ( = Gedankenexperiment) ?
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> Confusedly,
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> KC, who rarely (knowingly) drops money
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> When I was in Pisa many years ago I decided to do a gedanken experiment.
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> I dropped a 1.000 Lire coin and a 1,000 Lira note at the same time.
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> Unfortunately, I forgot to station a grad student to make observations.