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Article #353359Re: Lightspeed constant...
From: sm... Wayne Smith
Date: Tue, 12 Nov 1996 00:00
Date: Tue, 12 Nov 1996 00:00
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On Tue, 12 Nov 1996 01:39:55 GMT, Chris <coop...@cf.ac.uk> wrote: >Victor Major wrote: >> >> Benjami...@brown.edu wrote: >> > >> > <snipped actual contents of message> >> > >> > > ROFL, >> > > Biggo. >> > > -- >> > > *** If your car could travel at the speed of light, >> > > would the headlights still work? *** >> > >> > well, you asked for it. of course your headlights would still work. as a >> > matter of fact, if your car was travelling a mere 1 sec per decade (........snipped........) >> Eintiens Theory of Relativity. Exactly what it says; its relative to something. If you are in the car the headlights relative to you would >still produce light at 3 x10^8 m/s Only the observer would percieve the >light a short distance away from the car as both the car AND the light >are very closely mathced in speed. All wierd, but them again according >to Einstein at the speed of light your energy and mass become infinite >and your length in space equals zero, therefore you occupy all pionts in >space at the same time form the application of infinate speed = universe >is destroyed! But that is all relative to the observer! not you!! >Confused yet??? Not at all, but the question still remains; Would Win95 bootup any faster in that environment? --- Wayne Smith ---
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