Re: Lightspeed constant...

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From: co... Colin L. Hildinger
Date: Sat, 16 Nov 1996 00:00

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In message <no-ya023180001...@news.ithaca.edu> - n...@no.no
(dicer)Thu, 14 Nov 1996 22:15:45 -0500 writes:
:>
:>In article <56g0p1$e...@ionews.ionet.net>, co...@ionet.net (Colin L.
:>Hildinger) wrote:
:>
:>> In message <328A52...@uclink4.berkeley.edu> - JW
:>> <jd_...@uclink4.berkeley.edu> writes:
:>> :>
:>> :>Elementary, my dear Watson.  Time slows down as you approach the speed
:>> :>of light.
:>> 
:>> Actually, perception of time in your reference frame slows as you approach it,
:>> relative the the velocity of something in another frame.  That's what most of
:>> the people in this conversation seem to be missing, there is no absolute
:>> reference frame, everything it relative.  That's why it's called relativity.
:>> 
:>
:>Boy this is a strange topic for these newsgroups.  But as no one seems to
:>care...
:>
:>You've almost got it.  As you approache c WRT some other frame of
:>reference, you would see that the time in that other frame has dilated -
:>events are happening slower in that frame as you observe them from your
:>frame.  An observer in this other frame, on the other hand, would not say
:>that her own time was dilated.
:>
:>-dicer

Quite correct.  Oops, I guess I shouldn't discuss relativity drunk.  ;-)  

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From: co...@ionet.net (Colin L. Hildinger)
Subject: Re: Lightspeed constant...
Date: 1996/11/16
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