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To: Physicist
ping for #462.

Hey! What happened to those clay tablets that were moving at 1.000000000000000000000000000000000001 light speed?

481 posted on 07/24/2002 5:24:50 PM PDT by balrog666
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To: balrog666
Can't happen, because c is for cuneiform. ;^)

(Actually, I worked through an example where the signal moved very slightly faster than lightspeed, but I thought the notation would be too hard to follow, so I came up with this conceptually clearer example. "One light year" and "four times lightspeed" and time differences of many days are concepts that are much easier to visualize than (1.0 - 0.67*epsilon)*c, or some such.)

482 posted on 07/24/2002 5:45:08 PM PDT by Physicist
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To: balrog666
What happened to those clay tablets that were moving at 1.000000000000000000000000000000000001 light speed?

There was this guy with a tachyon shotgun . . .

483 posted on 07/24/2002 5:51:58 PM PDT by VadeRetro
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