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elem. questiona about ST o. Relaticity

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From: ERIC LADA
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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Subject: elem. questiona about ST o. Relaticity
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