Re: [Re: Lightspeed (was Re:phlogiston travel)]

> > Sorry to interject here but according to Einstien's second postulate of
> > relativity the speed of light is constant no matter what speed the observer
> > travels at. So if we were to assume that light travelled at 1157.407 miles
> > per sec and the observer also travelled at this speed he could still see
> > quite well as the light he observes continues to travel at 1157.407 miles
> > per sec.....honest guv!!!

> Better recheck your math.  If I move at the same speed as light I can't see
> anything behind me.

yeeeeeeeeeeeeeeees, but not for the same reason you're thinking. the
reason you can't see anything behind you is because the light is
redshifted and time dilated into invisibility, noit because it "can't
catch up".

besides, moving at the speed of light you have bigger problems, like the
fact that you're about to smack into the side of the crystal sphere
that's just been length contacted to a infinitessimal distance in front
of your bow, and you have precisely zero time to do anything about it :)




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rad.

stand still while i mock you!
                -- dogbert