--------------- Acknowledgments --------------- Thanks to the contributors to - the newsgroups sci.physics.research - the newsgroups de.sci.physik, and - the Physics Forums at http://physicsforums.com - the Physics Stack exchange at http://physics.stackexchange.com for their more or less challenging questions and comments, without which this FAQ wouldn't exist. Thanks also to Steve Carlip, Norbert Dragon, Hendrik van Hees, Don Koks, Nick Maclaren, Alejandro Rivero, Joe Rongen, Nicolaas Vroom and Gerard Westendorp for useful comments that lead to improvements in the FAQ. Finally, thanks to God for his wonderful and interesting universe, and for the gift of being able to understand his many wonders on all time and length scales.