Reading this, my highlights, its obvious the accelerometer is not really a true accelerometer. very limited... is this all they got? . Laser was just more sophisticated, and I find no reference to a tunnelling type? Phil. An accelerometer is a device for measuring specific external force (force over mass which has the units of acceleration) on the accelerometer. For a freely moving object, the output of the accelerometer is off from the true accleration by a 1 g factor in the local vertical axis and it must be added for the inertial navigation solution by a model of the earth gravitation acceleration. In the other non-vertical axis the accelerometer measures acceleration and the equivalent specific external force. Counterintuitively??, a sensor at rest on the earth's surface will indicate the acceleration of gravity, 1 g, because it is reading the ground reaction force and zero during free fall in a vaccuum. The accelerometer can not measure internal forces such as gravity directly. If aerodynamic resistance is present during the free-fall it will record the acceleration due the air drag. Single- and multi-axis models are available to detect magnitude and direction of the acceleration. Accelerometers can be used to sense inclination, vibration, and shock. They may be part of an Inertial Navigation System and are increasingly present in portable electronic devices, where they may be used to sense user input through motion. ----- Original Message ----- From: Paul Deema To: geocentrism@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Sent: Saturday, March 15, 2008 12:44 AM Subject: [geocentrism] Re: acceleration calcs Allen D OK -- I looked here http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sagnac_effect and it confirms my understanding of Sagnac Effect (at least that part which I understand does -- the maths is beyond me) and I can't see why you would quote this in defence of your assertion that a quantum tunnelling accelerometer will indicate acceleration in free-fall. You did not quarrel with my simplification that ' ... it is still a mass on a spring!' so I discern your acceptance. I still want an explanation from you as to how a mass on a spring in a falling bomb case can indicate the local value of g (friction = zero). Paul D ----- Original Message ---- From: Allen Daves <allendaves@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> To: Geocentrism@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Sent: Thursday, 13 March, 2008 6:19:44 PM Subject: [geocentrism] Re: acceleration calcs Paul.. a free fall does not prevent you from measruing an acceleration period. Who in the world told you that....an accidemic or a theorotician certainly not anyone doing pratical real work with free falling objects becasue we can and do all day long?....That is the point to Sagnac 1913 suggest you look it up.........That assertion is based on GTR it is and was proven wrong. alas but then came STR it was invented to explain why that was still true even though experiments using light showed otherwise.....it did so by attempting to create "Inertial ref frames" for eletromagnetic radiation as well....alas but...that too was proven wrong too!... The only ones who accept & invoke it as gosple truth are theoreticans and acidemics. However, since the only other alternitive is to admit a stationary earth ......GTR & STR are thus the stus quo and will remain so untill somthing else can be found more phylosphicaly acceptable to explain why the earth only appears at the center of a universe staionary and only appears to have the/any and only motion relating to the earth measured sidrealy not annualy. STR attempted such an explination by ignoring or denying that any motion at all was and is ever measured coz it is in free fall/ inertial fames....but anyone who actualy performs an experiment with acceleration of objects in freefall knows that is absolutly not true!?..........You don't see you are using GTR axioms (statments of faith) to prop up the GTR Conclusion but you must use the GTR conclusion to "support" the axiom. GTR and STR have absolutly no foundation to them whatsoever without invoking the "Coperican principle" that was the whole point of their developement by Einstine and crew in the late 19th and early 20th century...? The problem is you can't invoke the very principle you are trying to "prove" or hold as self evident as the foundation for the theory that supposedly proves your principle...... that is not proof that is a circular falicy built opon faith in the copernican principle. the experiments show that objects in free fall the acceleration can be measured w/ort to anything outside of that free falling object.....!? Proof is in the application not in the theoretical and acidmemic retoric..... We do it all the time.... you can take a gyro that is not in motion here on the earth turn it off then turn it on once the freefalling object reaches its terminal velocity and .............wholaaaa......... i can tell you for a fact what the exact velocity and accelertaion of that free falling object is.......take that same gyro in object turn it back off and now put it into space....now turn it on...I can tell you the same things... acceleration and velocity if any and the difference between what it was before........................ You guys don't realise you are confusing text book assertions with the practical appications..... ----- Original Message ---- From: Paul Deema <paul_deema@xxxxxxxxxxx> To: Geocentrism@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Sent: Thursday, March 13, 2008 9:17:18 AM Subject: [geocentrism] Re: acceleration calcs Allen D Concerning "Title:Quantum tunneling cantilever accelerometer" -- thank you for your agreement. My reading of this document tells me that it remains, for all its sensitivity, a mass on a spring. It may indeed register the tiniest of accelerations, but it will still read zero if it is not being accelerated. Wouldn't be much use if it did would it? As I don't have any idea how you expect it to read acceleration in free fall, why don't you favour us all with a short, concise, lucid explanation of how you understand this happening. I'm sure we'd all appreciate that. And as you raised the matter, a similar explanation of the uses of your favourite super-sensitive gyroscope would, I'm sure, also be appreciated by all. In case you have any doubts here, for mine, Regner said it all. 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