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To: apochromat
In a Wheeler-Feynman sort of way, I suppose.

No, in a Jack Finney-H.G. Wells sort of way. OBAFGKM already showed you that if Alice sends an FTL signal (event "A") to an observer Bob (event "B"), and Bob is travelling towards Alice sufficiently fast, event "B" will occur before event "A" in Bob's frame. That means that in Bob's frame, his line of simultaneity intersects Alice's location at an earlier time than she sent it. So if Bob bounces this FTL signal back to Alice, it will arrive at her location before she actually sent it.

163 posted on 07/16/2002 3:44:28 PM PDT by Physicist
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To: Physicist
Kiss my ass.
168 posted on 07/16/2002 4:59:56 PM PDT by apochromat
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To: Physicist
... with all due respect, of course.
170 posted on 07/16/2002 5:02:14 PM PDT by apochromat
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To: Physicist
I could think of no better reply to your effort at getting your ass kissed.
254 posted on 07/17/2002 7:49:41 AM PDT by apochromat
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To: Physicist
How did you get Bob to go so fast?
358 posted on 07/18/2002 3:05:11 PM PDT by apochromat
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