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- From: pww@bnr.ca (Peter Whittaker)
- Subject: Re: Reserach in Fiction (the Star Wars tangent)
- Message-ID: <1992Jul21.200121.13129@bwdls61.bnr.ca>
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- References: <1992Jul20.175859.571@HQ.Ileaf.COM> <1992Jul21.141728.29806@bwdls61.bnr.ca> <1992Jul21.130125.1@eagle.wesleyan.edu>
- Date: Tue, 21 Jul 1992 20:01:21 GMT
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- In article <1992Jul21.130125.1@eagle.wesleyan.edu> mschmitt@eagle.wesleyan.edu writes:
- >In article <1992Jul21.141728.29806@bwdls61.bnr.ca>, pww@bnr.ca (Peter Whittaker) writes:
- >> That's fine: all units of distance are acceptable as units of time as
- >> well. It is perfectly legitimate for me to say "See you in 90
- >> gigametres"; you might have difficulty figuring out that I mean "See
- >> you in 5 minutes", but that is something we'd have to work out.
- >>
- > Only if you have a commone reference frame of speed. You have to know
- >that the speaker is referring to the speed of light as the time basis. If I
- >assume you mean .5c, for example, the whole thing falls apart.
-
- Should have specified: to the physicist, it is always "c". Which is
- course sometimes set to 1, to make the physics more evident, and get
- rid of that nasty mathematics. :-> But I digress.
-
- > Also, relativity could reak havoc with your system. :)
-
- No it couldn't. Light speed is light speed is light speed. And travel
- at light speed is travel at light speed.
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- pww
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