[time-nuts] WWV Doppler Shift
Steve Allen
sla at ucolick.org
Thu Nov 22 04:10:34 UTC 2018
On Wed 2018-11-21T20:01:18-0800 Tom Van Baak hath writ:
> Right. It's not obvious to me either. I've been looking some time
> for the right book, article, or web page to hand out when people ask
> that question. The same goes for a rotating planet made of foam vs.
> water vs. diamond question. It's possible that separating "SR" and
> "GR", as newcomers to relativity (me too) often do, is itself the
> problem in this case. When two things magically equal or cancel
> there's usually a deeper reason.
The gravitational redshift is your depth in the gravitational
potential well. That is how far down you are from Infinity.
The geoid is an equipotential surface.
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