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Originally Posted by swamp2
There are a plethora of other possbilities that don't require breaking the laws of physics which simply are not broken. Pretty soon you are going to tell me someone has accelerated a particle faster than the speed of light and you have a measurement to prove it. You just don't seem to get it that some things really are absolute. Like any situation where something like this occurs it is obvious that the two sides/langauages/results are not entirely on the same page. The possibilities include:
1. The measurements are not instantaneous, perhaps averaged over a short section.
2. The cars used different lines, hence different radii.
3. The accelerometers were not accurately calibrated.
4. The cars were accelerating tangentially while cornering (i.e. a corner at constant speed is still accelerating, what I mean is that the speedo was also changing).
5. The turns are banked confounding the measurement process.
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I would add that unless the instruments were on constant-level mounts, then any lean angle difference between the cars will also affect the readings.
As a by-the-way, I don't think you guys are actually disagreeing in the slightest.
Bruce