Re: IS THAT A SWASTIKA OR...??? Stop this thread!

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From: Benjami...
Date: Sun, 10 Nov 1996 00:00

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> 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
slower than the speed of light and you switched on your headlights you
would perceive the light from them rushing away from you at a full 3 x
10^8 meters/sec (the speed a light in a vacuum). however, if i were
standing on the sidewalk watching you whiz past me at this
very-close-to-light speed i would see both you and your headlights going
by at very close to the same speed (the light would be going faster by 1
sec/decade). contact me for further explanation should you so desire. by
the way, you could never go as fast as the speed of light because the
denominator in the lorenz transformation (the series of equations which
governs relativistic calculations) is sqrt(velocity - speed of light)
and if you actually ever went the speed of light the value would be zero
and one cannot have a value of zero in the denominator. if you actually
went faster than the speed of light the value of the sqrt would be
imaginary which cannot happen, either.

sorry.

-- ben

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Subject: Re: IS THAT A SWASTIKA OR...??? Stop this thread!
Date: 1996/11/10
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