Re: The appearence of car wheels near the speed of light

O'Barr

If I press on a little further: does SRT's assumption that
"mass increases a the speed of light is approached"
allow an astronaut to measure how close to the speed of light
he is getting by measuring how much fuel is used up to increase
his speed by a certain amount?



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