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<blockquote data-quote="Harte" data-source="post: 25772" data-attributes="member: 443"><p><strong>Re: faster than light?</strong></p><p></p><p><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(\"thenumbersix\")</div></p><p>TN6,</p><p>I certainly don't mean to confuse you. I think the pertinant point you are missing is here in what I previously said:</p><p><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(\"Harte\")</div></p><p> </p><p>You create a new reference frame when you begin to move with respect to your original reference frame (the Earth). You have no motion with respect to your current reference frame. It travels with you. If you look out a window of your spaceship at a passing planet, it is true to say "I am moving past that planet. It is equally true to say "That planet is moving past me." The second statement illustrates what I mean by no motion with respect to your current reference frame.</p><p></p><p>I included this example in a previous post to try and cut through any confusion:</p><p> </p><p><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(\"Harte\")</div></p><p>Sitting on the bank of the canal, Einstein shared the reference frame of anything else around him that was motionless. Once he began to jog, he created a new reference frame for himself. The fact that these two reference frames are not the same is illustrated by what he sees the waves in the canal doing when he is in one reference frame and then in the other.</p><p> </p><p>Think of traveling on a train at 60 mph. If you get up and walk down the aisle at 5 mph, it looks to everyone sitting on the train that you are moving at 5 mph. Someone on the ground outside the train looking in would see you walking at 65 mph. To you, it appears that you are still and the interior of the train is moving past you at 5 mph.</p><p> </p><p><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(\"thenumbersix\")</div></p><p> </p><p>Good luck finding a place outside any gravity well.</p><p> </p><p>Harte</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Harte, post: 25772, member: 443"] [b]Re: faster than light?[/b] <div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(\"thenumbersix\")</div> TN6, I certainly don't mean to confuse you. I think the pertinant point you are missing is here in what I previously said: <div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(\"Harte\")</div> You create a new reference frame when you begin to move with respect to your original reference frame (the Earth). You have no motion with respect to your current reference frame. It travels with you. If you look out a window of your spaceship at a passing planet, it is true to say "I am moving past that planet. It is equally true to say "That planet is moving past me." The second statement illustrates what I mean by no motion with respect to your current reference frame. I included this example in a previous post to try and cut through any confusion: <div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(\"Harte\")</div> Sitting on the bank of the canal, Einstein shared the reference frame of anything else around him that was motionless. Once he began to jog, he created a new reference frame for himself. The fact that these two reference frames are not the same is illustrated by what he sees the waves in the canal doing when he is in one reference frame and then in the other. Think of traveling on a train at 60 mph. If you get up and walk down the aisle at 5 mph, it looks to everyone sitting on the train that you are moving at 5 mph. Someone on the ground outside the train looking in would see you walking at 65 mph. To you, it appears that you are still and the interior of the train is moving past you at 5 mph. <div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(\"thenumbersix\")</div> Good luck finding a place outside any gravity well. Harte [/QUOTE]
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