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Related: Culture Forums, Support ForumsAliens. 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
They need to be checking every island in the South Pacific that has polar bears
charlie and algernon
Mar 2014
#3
jakeXT
(10,575 posts)1. Every plane flight is playing with "time"
"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
http://hyperphysics.phy-astr.gsu.edu/hbase/relativ/airtim.html
IdaBriggs
(10,559 posts)5. Truth: I did not know this.
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.
Cheap_Trick
(3,918 posts)2. In other words...
IdaBriggs
(10,559 posts)6. Yes!
Totally perfect use of the graphic!
charlie and algernon
(13,447 posts)3. They need to be checking every island in the South Pacific that has polar bears
And giant four-toed statues.
IdaBriggs
(10,559 posts)7. I don't know why they haven't already checked!
Mystery solved!
edbermac
(15,938 posts)4. Paging agents Mulder and Scully.
IdaBriggs
(10,559 posts)8. All resources haven't been mobilized if they aren't involved!
LiberalEsto
(22,845 posts)9. The Borg
Passengers assimilated.