Re: Help with apparent paradox please?
- From: elithetalent@xxxxxxxxx
- Date: 13 Apr 2006 17:24:14 -0700
here it is
if the ticket collector was at the middle of the train while the train
was nearing the speed of light and he fired a pulse of light to both
brakers at once then the guardsman at the back would brake first.
why?
because since the pulse of light going back is travelling at the speed
of light and the train is travelling near the speed of light then the
pulse of light would get there twice as fast and since the train is
going near the speed of light and the pulse of light directed at the
forward guardsman has to travel all the way up there while the train is
going near the speed of light. so the ticket collector most likely did
die because of the physics involved because light isnt affected by the
gravity of earth.
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