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Re: Superman --How far off topic ya wanna go?
From: Bill B
Date: 2004 Jul 23, 20:54 -0500
From: Bill B
Date: 2004 Jul 23, 20:54 -0500
>going backwards.> > >> Don't you just hate it when that happens? Usually means Superman is flying >> very quickly in reverse around the globe, trying to get back into his past >> again. He's terribly inconsiderate that way. Are we missing the basics of Special Relativity and the Twins Paradox here? Superman may arrive back after his flight in the observer's future, or his past? depending on the frame of reference (therefore younger than the observer), but the earthbound observer's sun will truck on as usual. This ain't the International Date Line we are kicking around. Direction around earth will not matter, only acceleration. Lorentz Transformations are, "A simple exercise left to the reader." Bill