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To: Grut

Excellent, where did you get those stats from? I'm just curious. Thanks


198 posted on 02/05/2005 5:19:48 PM PST by Indy Pendance
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To: Indy Pendance
Excellent, where did you get those stats from?

The Lorentz transformations give the changes in mass, time and length in relation to velocity. Basically, the rest value (rest mass, rest length etc.) is altered by a factor known as tau, which is the square root of 1 minus the apparent velocity as a fraction of the velocity of light. At 1/2 the speed of light, or .5c, tau = SQR (1 - .5), or .8660. So length is 87% of rest length, time slows to 87% of rest time and mass is 1/.87 of rest mass, or 1.15 times greater.

240 posted on 02/05/2005 7:43:32 PM PST by Grut
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