From: utzoo!decvax!ittvax!neiman Newsgroups: net.misc Title: Re: A Relavtistically Simple Question - (nf) Article-I.D.: ittvax.583 Posted: Wed Jan 19 10:14:34 1983 Received: Fri Jan 21 05:20:53 1983 References: ucbcad.283 Someone just made the claim that the clock does not lose time because it always receives the same number of pulses. Remember that these pulses are crossing a energy potential barrier. In the improbable case that the clock runs at all, the signal coming over the line would appear to be (I think) very high frequency, probably beyond the capacity of the pulse counter to respond. Actually, I wonder how the innards of a digital clock would respond to x-rays coming over the line cord. But anyways, my guess is that the clock would not detect any pulses so that after an hour of vigorous swinging it would show the correct time. It would be radiation damaged, melted by friction, and torn apart by tidal forces, but it would show the correct time. Not afraid to admit I'm just guessing, dann