To: cripplecreek
Straightforward Newtonian addition of velocities doesn't work to get you past c. If you plug the problem you propose into the Lorentz transformations Einstein adopted, you don't get over c. No observer anywhere thinks you're going faster than light, not even one going near the speed of light the other way.
21 posted on
03/26/2006 9:08:42 AM PST by
VadeRetro
(I have the updated "Your brain on creationism" on my homepage.)
To: VadeRetro; cripplecreek
Straightforward Newtonian addition of velocities doesn't work to get you past c. Actually, that does but it's wrong.
23 posted on
03/26/2006 9:09:53 AM PST by
VadeRetro
(I have the updated "Your brain on creationism" on my homepage.)
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson