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To: Excuse_My_Bellicosity

This is probably a grade-school question, but why did you refer to 1/3 the speed of light as a “relativistic” speed.

I presume it refers to the theory of relativity, but am not sure exactly how.


27 posted on 01/19/2018 7:00:39 PM PST by dsc (Any attempt to move a government to the left is a crime against humanity.)
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To: dsc

A “relativistic” speed is a significant fraction of the speed of light where weird things like time dilation and length contraction happen.


31 posted on 01/20/2018 8:25:44 PM PST by Excuse_My_Bellicosity (Liberalism is a social disease.)
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