GPS
editHi, Sid. Are you the same contributor I've known and worked with these past 2 or 3 years?
I'm wondering how important the GPS vs. relativity thing is, and whether the linkage between Relativity and relativism should be discussed in the same article.
Now I know there are two viewpoints on how the philosophical, religious or political concept of moral relativism has been (or cannot be) linked to the theories in physical science about special relativity and general relativity.
- That one idea naturally leads to another
- That the ideas are utterly unrelated
We can easily Google up support for either POV.
But do you think it should be discussed at Talk:GPS? Or what? --Uncle Ed (talk) 23:51, 16 August 2010 (UTC)
- Working point by point:
- Yes, I'm indeed the same guy. You know this. Even if you for some reason suddenly had a memory crash, you could've checked my contribs or my archives here. Or you could've asked TK or any other member of [name of your current secret CP discussion group].
- How important is relativity in GPS? Well, so far, the consensus is that the latter fails if it ignores the former, so I guess it's kinda important, yeah. Is it one of the fundamental must-know facts of GPS? I don't know.
- Should any alleged link between relativity and relativism be discussed in the GPS article? Er... no... why should it?
- But if you think you can write an article on this with good sources, I'm certainly not stopping you.
- The relativity/relativism thing has nothing to do with GPS, so its talk page seems like a bad fit.
- Hope that helps. --Sid 3050 (talk) 01:04, 17 August 2010 (UTC)
- That helps a lot ... sorry I was lazy on the contribs thing. You are indeed you! :-)
- I guess what we're talking about at talk:GPS is relativity and its relation to GPS calculations, rather than the side issue of relativity and relativism.
- It's always a pleasure to talk with someone as rational and courteous as you. Wish we could do it in [other places] too. --Uncle Ed (talk) 01:55, 17 August 2010 (UTC)