Re: Relativity question

From: Gregory L. Hansen (glhansen_at_steel.ucs.indiana.edu)
Date: 03/18/05


Date: Fri, 18 Mar 2005 16:12:52 +0000 (UTC)

In article <d1dh35$9t5$1@rainier.uits.indiana.edu>,
John Smith <no@way.net> wrote:
>If me moving away from the earth is the same thing as the earth moving away
>from me why then does time slow down for me but not for earthlings? Many
>thanks.

To you, the Earth clock will run slow. To the Earth, your clock will run
slow.

-- 
"I fart for joy and I laugh more than if I had cast my old age, as a 
serpent does its skin." -- Aristophanes, Peace, 421 BC


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