Re: TDD: Test-Driven Design or Test-Driven Development?

From: Robert C. Martin (unclebob_at_objectmentor.com)
Date: 03/05/04 

Date: Fri, 05 Mar 2004 10:01:15 -0600

On Thu, 04 Mar 2004 22:04:12 GMT, "Shayne Wissler"
<thalesNOSPAM000@yahoo.com> wrote:

>
>"Universe" <universe@tAkEcovadOuT.net> wrote in message
>news:286b4$4047a62b$97cff003$16702@msgid.meganewsservers.com...
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>> In fact the notion that there is no favored frame of reference regarding
>> objects regarding analysis of motion, velocity, time and space is
>> fundamental to Relativity Theory.
>
>My chair, which seems quite happy to be pulled toward the center of the
>earth, would disagree with you. The planets, whose orbits go *around the
>sun*, are caused by the massive gravity of the sun; it is not the other way
>around, so that too would contradict the whacky idea that it was the
>reverse, or worse, that it was indifferent.
>
>Just because you can view something from a different perspective doesn't
>mean that you should.

Hmmm. Are you sure about that? The Principle of Equivalence (that
you can't tell an accelerating frame of reference from a gravitational
field) seems pretty close to the core of GR. Again, I'm not a GR
geek, but all that I've read about it suggests that all frames of
reference are relative. (ergo General Relativity.)

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