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Article #4342Re: The Flat Earth? - Conclusion
From: Franz Lemmermeyer
Date: Thu, 22 Jun 1995 00:00
Date: Thu, 22 Jun 1995 00:00
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In article <3sc0ik$1lck@sernews.raleigh.ibm.com>,
anthonycx@raleigh.ibm.com writes:
|> In <3s8m1k$r19@news.belwue.de>,
hb3@aixterm5.urz.uni-heidelberg.de (Franz Lemmermeyer) writes:
|> > In a similar vein: if you take a laser and let it rotate fast enough,
|> > then its light cone will have a velocity faster than c out on the
|> > moon. This does not contradict SR, because there is no physical
|> > object moving with this velocity.
|>
|> Not so, the light beam will always travel at the speed of light,
Light beams do not
|> rotate, they travel in only 1 direction at at time.
Sorry for messing things up; what i meant to say (and thought i did)
was that the bright spot on the moon moves with velocity > c. I was
trying to explain that SR does not forbid velocities > c, but only
objects moving faster than light.
franz
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: f66d0,bd5c6f53c27c37d X-Google-Attributes: gidf66d0,public X-Google-Thread: f44bc,bd5c6f53c27c37d X-Google-Attributes: gidf44bc,public X-Google-Thread: fc158,bd5c6f53c27c37d X-Google-Attributes: gidfc158,public X-Google-Thread: 10b363,bd5c6f53c27c37d X-Google-Attributes: gid10b363,public X-Google-Thread: f74ae,bd5c6f53c27c37d X-Google-Attributes: gidf74ae,public X-Google-Thread: 1038c2,bd5c6f53c27c37d X-Google-Attributes: gid1038c2,public X-Google-Thread: 10f18e,bd5c6f53c27c37d X-Google-Attributes: gid10f18e,public From: hb3@aixterm7.urz.uni-heidelberg.de (Franz Lemmermeyer) Subject: Re: The Flat Earth? - Conclusion Date: 1995/06/22 Message-ID: <3sca5m$83r@news.belwue.de> X-Deja-AN: 104920920 distribution: world references: <19950620.140656.778@vnet.ibm.com> <3s7vae$ev9@jyusenkyou.cs.jhu.edu> <3s8m1k$r19@news.belwue.de> <3sc0ik$1lck@sernews.raleigh.ibm.com> organization: University of Heidelberg, Germany newsgroups: sci.astro,talk.origins,sci.anthropology,alt.sci.physics.new-theories,sci.skeptic,aus.religion,alt.religion.christian