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Article #353259Re: Lightspeed constant...
From: rasm... Frank Sweetser
Date: Tue, 12 Nov 1996 00:00
Date: Tue, 12 Nov 1996 00:00
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Followup-To: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.chips,comp.os.ms-windows.win95.misc,comp.os.ms-windows.win95.setup,comp.multimedia,comp.graphics.animation,alt.games.doom,alt.games.descent,alt.games.warcraft,comp.graphics,comp.graphics.animation,alt.fan.bill-gates,comp.os.os2.misc,comp.os.os2.advocacy,comp.os.ms-windows.nt.advocacy,comp.object,comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.networking,comp.security.misc,comp.security.unix,comp.os.ms-windows.advocacy,news.admin.policy,fr.comp.windows.drivers,alt.windows95,soc.cultur e References: <568aoj$m...@news.Hawaii.Edu> Distribution: X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] : Chris (coop...@cf.ac.uk) wrote: : : > Eintiens Theory of Relativity. Exactly what it says; its relative to something. If you are in the car the headlights relative to you would : : still produce light at 3 x10^8 m/s Only the observer would percieve the : : light a short distance away from the car as both the car AND the light : : are very closely mathced in speed. All wierd, but them again according : : to Einstein at the speed of light your energy and mass become infinite : : and your length in space equals zero, therefore you occupy all pionts in : : space at the same time form the application of infinate speed = universe : : is destroyed! But that is all relative to the observer! not you!! : : Confused yet??? : The keyword, kids, is *THEORY*... : NEVER accept theories as the end-all truth... : There used to be a theory that it was impossible to travel at/faster than : the speed of sound.... Why, of course it's not impossible.... it's just infinitly improbably. -- Frank Sweetser rasm...@wpi.edu Unix Wizard, (n): Someone who can type `cat > /unix` and get away with it!
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From: rasm...@paramount.res.wpi.edu (Frank Sweetser) Subject: Re: Lightspeed constant... Date: 1996/11/12 Message-ID: <569rgm$fu1@bigboote.WPI.EDU> X-Deja-AN: 195978101 organization: Worcester Polytechnic Institute newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.chips,comp.os.ms-windows.win95.misc,comp.os.ms-windows.win95.setup,comp.multimedia,comp.graphics.animation,alt.games.doom,alt.games.descent,alt.games.warcraft,comp.graphics,comp.graphics.animation,alt.fan.bill-gates,comp.os.os2.misc,comp.os.os2.advocacy,comp.os.ms-windows.nt.advocacy,comp.object,comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.networking,comp.security.misc,comp.security.unix,comp.os.ms-windows.advocacy,news.admin.policy,fr.comp.windows.drivers,alt.windows95,soc.culture MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit