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To: Southack
How do you know the cars are moving?
178 posted on 06/26/2003 10:15:02 AM PDT by Physicist
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To: Physicist
The cars themselves *are* moving in reality, it is in my fictitious *model* of the cars that they appear to be stationary.

Modeling moving objects to make them appear stationary doesn't make the actual objects themselves stationary, QED.

179 posted on 06/26/2003 10:16:53 AM PDT by Southack (Media bias means that Castro won't be punished for Cuban war crimes against Black Angolans in Africa)
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To: Physicist
How do you know the cars are moving?

Just set up an interferometer, and measure the speed of light forwards and backwards along three coordinates. The difference, divided by two, will give you the absolute velocity along that coordinate. Add the three vectors, and you have the 'real' velocity.

I'm surprised no one has tried this :-)

181 posted on 06/26/2003 10:25:49 AM PDT by Right Wing Professor
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