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Re: Lightspeed constant...

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From: rasm... Frank Sweetser
Date: Tue, 12 Nov 1996 00:00
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: 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
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