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Originally Posted by Peter Wilson
Ken G, does BAUT have the technology to set up a pool by such rules? (If not, see below.)
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I can't speak for the forum, but my guess is that it would not want to be used for money changing hands. Why don't you just use an anonymous poll? The software can set up a poll for you, it's done a lot. (I've never done it, click on some options).
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Originally Posted by Peter Wilson
Here is the difficulty in explaining the theory: I believe Newton was deeply aware that his theory was flawed. He knew it worked in the solar system, but Newton let his mind wander, as he was wont to do, and thought about how it would work at infinity.
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Newton didn't like action at a distance, and neither did Einstein, so that was a big motivator.
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Originally Posted by Peter Wilson
How big was that turkey that they failed to produce when the observations finally came in? If some one could come up with the magnitude of the negative answer (deceleration being considered negative) that the “experts” predicted, and compare it to the magnitude of the positive value of the observations which I must explain, this may influence the betting in a positive way (PI).
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Without much work, a simple estimate is possible by taking the speed of light and dividing by the age of the universe, this is the scale of the acceleration in the non-exponential mode we find ourselves in, so that would be (negative) 10^(-9) m/s^2.