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THE gist of Mr. Love's long letter, on pp. 198–9, seems to be that since the specification of a force or a motion depends upon the choice of axes, therefore the force or motion itself is similarly dependent. A slight extension of the same principle would make a velocity—say the velocity of light—depend upon whether it was to be expressed in miles per second or in centimetres per hour; and no extension at all is necessary to make it depend on whether it is referred to Groombridge 1830, or to some more quiescent body, if indeed the term quiescence may be allowed henceforth to have any meaning.
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LODGE, O. The Alleged Absoluteness of Motions of Rotation. Nature 51, 272 (1895). https://doi.org/10.1038/051272a0
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