To: Doctor Stochastic
For us nonscientific minded, could you post a layman's example of IAAAD?
To: CharacterCounts
IAAAD (Instantaneous Action At A Distance) would be some mechanism for transmiting a signal (or energy or mass) at a speed greater than that of light.
There are non-material things that move faster than light, but no signal can be sent with these. An example would be a (very bright) flashlight beam swinging in a solar system sized arc. The locus of the light spot would travel faster than light, but the photons moving from the flashlight to the spot would not.
34 posted on
03/12/2003 10:44:21 AM PST by
Doctor Stochastic
(Vegetabilisch = chaotisch is der Charakter der Modernen. - Friedrich Schlegel)
To: CharacterCounts
If the moon disappeared, the earth should change its orbit about the sun.
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