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IdaBriggs

(10,559 posts)
Thu Mar 13, 2014, 01:37 PM Mar 2014

Aliens. I said it.

Missing plane = Aliens.



I feel bad for the families, but seriously the whole situation is

So I'm going with "Aliens" for "most likely unlikely theory."

Or "Time Travel" - it could be time travel.

But then we're probably back to "Aliens" again, aren't we?


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Aliens. I said it. (Original Post) IdaBriggs Mar 2014 OP
Every plane flight is playing with "time" jakeXT Mar 2014 #1
Truth: I did not know this. IdaBriggs Mar 2014 #5
In other words... Cheap_Trick Mar 2014 #2
Yes! IdaBriggs Mar 2014 #6
They need to be checking every island in the South Pacific that has polar bears charlie and algernon Mar 2014 #3
I don't know why they haven't already checked! IdaBriggs Mar 2014 #7
Paging agents Mulder and Scully. edbermac Mar 2014 #4
All resources haven't been mobilized if they aren't involved! IdaBriggs Mar 2014 #8
The Borg LiberalEsto Mar 2014 #9

jakeXT

(10,575 posts)
1. Every plane flight is playing with "time"
Thu Mar 13, 2014, 01:46 PM
Mar 2014
"During October, 1971, four cesium atomic beam clocks were flown on regularly scheduled commercial jet flights around the world twice, once eastward and once westward, to test Einstein's theory of relativity with macroscopic clocks. From the actual flight paths of each trip, the theory predicted that the flying clocks, compared with reference clocks at the U.S. Naval Observatory, should have lost 40+/-23 nanoseconds during the eastward trip and should have gained 275+/-21 nanoseconds during the westward trip ... Relative to the atomic time scale of the U.S. Naval Observatory, the flying clocks lost 59+/-10 nanoseconds during the eastward trip and gained 273+/-7 nanosecond during the westward trip, where the errors are the corresponding standard deviations. These results provide an unambiguous empirical resolution of the famous clock "paradox" with macroscopic clocks."

http://hyperphysics.phy-astr.gsu.edu/hbase/relativ/airtim.html
 

IdaBriggs

(10,559 posts)
5. Truth: I did not know this.
Thu Mar 13, 2014, 07:43 PM
Mar 2014

Last edited Fri Mar 14, 2014, 05:48 AM - Edit history (1)

Thank you for sharing!

On Edit: Tired. Spelling. Dud instead of did. Sigh.

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