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From: Kris Kennaway <kris@hub.freebsd.org>
To: Brett Taylor <brett@peloton.runet.edu>
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On Thu, 16 Mar 2000, Brett Taylor wrote:

> I'll stick w/ mass - at least I'll buy the same amount on each planet or
> in an accelerating frame.  :-)

I think you meant 'inertial frame'. In an accelerating frame your inertial
mass (and gravitational mass, by the equivalence principle) will be
different.

The moral of the story: buy your sugar in a freely-falling elevator car.

Kris

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