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Originally Posted by trinitree88
When a Foucault pendulum is released and assumes it's plane of motion fixed relative to the distant stars, it is not possible for it to interrogate them at it's moment of release. So, since it can not "know" them to find it's way, they must determine it's local path.
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Do I misunderstand your last sentence? Are you saying that the distant stars determine the local path of the pendulum?
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The ether of general relativity therefore differs from that of classical mechanics or the special theory of relativity respectively, in so far as it is not 'absolute', but is determined in its locally variable properties by ponderable matter.
Albert Einstein, "On the Ether", 1924
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