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To: SpyGuy

I'm not talking movies, I'm asking about Einstein's theory of relativity with respect to the advancement of technology, something hollywood can't grasp.


27 posted on 02/05/2005 3:35:37 PM PST by Indy Pendance
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To: Indy Pendance; Prophet in the wilderness
I'm not talking movies, I'm asking about Einstein's theory of relativity with respect to the advancement of technology, something hollywood can't grasp.

My point was, Einstein's relativity has nothing to do with the Earth's rotation, either forwards or backwards. It has to do only with movement through dimensional space. So when you write:

If it goes faster than the earth's rotation long enough, will it be ahead of time when it lands, or likewise in the opposite direction, will it go back in time.

You are exhibiting a Hollywood-like misunderstanding of the Theory of Relativity.

66 posted on 02/05/2005 3:51:14 PM PST by SpyGuy (Liberalism is slow societal suicide. And screw political correctness: Islam is the Religion of Death)
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To: Indy Pendance
I'm not talking movies, I'm asking about Einstein's theory of relativity with respect to the advancement of technology, something hollywood can't grasp

Ye gods, Hollywood can't grasp Newton! But just to give you a sense of the thing, at 1/2 the speed of light time slows, length shrinks and mass increases only by about 15%. At 1/10 the speed of light (fast enough to get you to the moon and back in thirty seconds WITH a change of planes at Atlanta), the changes are about 1/2 of one percent.

190 posted on 02/05/2005 5:14:51 PM PST by Grut
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