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

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From: Charlie Savko
Date: Mon, 11 Nov 1996 00:00

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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
> 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
Stop this thread NOW before it turns into another DIE THREAD DIE.
	-Charlie Savko

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From: Charlie Savko <sa...@epix.net>
Subject: Re: IS THAT A SWASTIKA OR...??? Stop this thread!
Date: 1996/11/11
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