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Article #4740elem. questiona about ST o. Relaticity
From: ERIC LADA
Date: Tue, 06 Oct 1992 05:42
Date: Tue, 06 Oct 1992 05:42
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Please pardon my specific ignorance and general stupidity on all things. But I an haveing some problems understanding the special theory of relartivity. Could some nice kind person help me out, and answer a few questions I am haveing with the theory. one: Let's say U have a skater(Mod Bob) rapidly advancing toward a cluster of unsuspecting old ladies(victims) who are standing around waiting 2 Cross the street. Because the skater is moving w. respect to the old ladies, time will slow down for the sk8er w. respect to the old ladies. So if the old were to suddenly look up at the skaters watch they would notice that the hands were moving a little slowely. Right? I think I kinda understand that part. But, What about the sk8er. As he/she(though I've never seen a female sk8er, and certainly not 1 named Bob), c's the world, the old ladies are raopidly advanceing toward her/him. So time should slow down for the old ladies. How then can both frames of referece be valid? And here's another question about frams-o-reference: Nothing can travel faster than the speed of light whithout turning into energy or going sdrawkcab(that's backwards speled sdrawkcab) in time(or some other hocus-pocus like that) (right? I hope?) Well Everythings relative(right?) so if Big Bird is shot out of a cannon at 299,984 m/s and the Cookie-moster is joggingt in the opposite direction(trying 2 get rid of some of those fattening cookies) going only 15 m/s, then as Big Bird sees it, the Cookie-monstor is jogging at a whopping speed of 299,999 m/s. No problem. But if the cooke Were to throw one of his cookies forward, at 4m/s, the cooke would be going faster that the speed-o-lite(as Big Bird sees it) How can that be or is it, or somethin Thank you, thank you /s
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Newsgroups: sci.physics Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!destroyer!gatech!taco!elada From: elada@eos.ncsu.edu (ERIC LADA) Subject: elem. questiona about ST o. Relaticity Message-ID: <1992Oct6.054217.3296@ncsu.edu> Originator: elada@c00175-100lez.eos.ncsu.edu Lines: 37 Sender: news@ncsu.edu (USENET News System) Reply-To: elada@eos.ncsu.edu (ERIC LADA) Organization: North Carolina State University, Project Eos Date: Tue, 6 Oct 1992 05:42:17 GMT