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Re: Lost in Space
Posted By: Sam, on host 207.180.184.40
Date: Wednesday, October 7, 1998, at 05:56:49
In Reply To: Re: Lost in Space posted by Dave on Tuesday, October 6, 1998, at 21:46:17:

> I leave it as an exercise to the reader to find the apparent paradox in that statement with respect to time dilation ;-)

The paradox is that there is a difference between a spaceship moving away from a planet at .15c and a planet moving away from a spaceship at .15c, namely that either way, the spaceship is the one that will experience a "speed up" of time. Relativists call this a paradox. I, in my gleefully presumptuous mind, call this evidence that disproves the theory. I think relativity is a lot like Newtonian physics -- it's applicable for a majority of calculations that we need to make but does not fully or accurately describe the universe.

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