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To: autumnraine
How can an insect fly around inside a car that is going 75 miles an hour? Or something dropped inside the car goes straight down. How is the outside the moving vehicle the only thing that is affected?

They are all relative motion, but have nothing to do with the Theory of Relativity : )

13 posted on 07/10/2008 7:05:23 PM PDT by LeGrande
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To: LeGrande

Ok, that’s good to know. I will study relative motion.

Thank you!


24 posted on 07/10/2008 7:14:30 PM PDT by autumnraine
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To: LeGrande
They are all relative motion, but have nothing to do with the Theory of Relativity : )

Well, we could rephrase the question. What if the car was traveling at .75c and the fly had a wrist watch? LOL

41 posted on 07/10/2008 7:28:33 PM PDT by chaos_5
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