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"Dirk Van de moortel" <dirkvandemoortel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote
in message news:E%Mkh.260579$OM2.5696643@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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> "Spirit of Truth" <juneharton@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
> news:NQMkh.41649$wP1.12018@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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>> <karandash2000@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
>> news:1167228640.562253.104340@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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>>> Spirit of Truth wrote:
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>>>> Q for you....
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>>>> Observe 2 photons travelling towards each other. The gap closes at 2c!
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>>> Yep, it is called "closing speed" . The speed of two entities can be as
>>> large as 2c in SR, no contradiction here.
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>>>> So, how can time be going forward at c?!
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>>> "Time going forward at c"? What are you trying to say? What is the
>>> connection with your previous sentence?
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>> A gap closure can happen at 2c.....elsewhere Einstein/Minkowski etc
>> have 'Time' itself going forward at c (when an object is theroetically
>> at total rest)....how can something happen at a speed of 2c
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> Nothing "happens at a speed of 2c".
> The distance between two light signals as mesasured by a third
> party observer can increase or decrease at a rate of 2c.
> The two physical things that *happen* here, are the light signals
> both moving at speed c as measured by that observer.
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> Dirk Vdm
Yes, Dirk, that's what I said...and the GAP closes at 2c as observed by
the third party observer! So, my Q is still valid.
from: Spirit of Truth
(using June's e-mail to communicate to you)!
>> when
>> time itself is purported to be going forward at c?
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>> from: Spirit of Truth
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>> (using June's e-mail to communicate to you)!
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