From: Edmund Grech (edmund@arclightentertainment.co.uk)
Date: Mon May 13 2002 - 15:37:45 MDT
Thinking about FTL travel rather randomly a curious mind bender of a thought
struck.
If two objects in empty space without any available background point of
reference set off in opposite directions at half the speed. Couldn't either
one, since there is no fixed relative background, perceive themselves to be
still while the other travels at the speed of light away from them. One
could even then appear to be travelling faster than the speed of light; is
this a cosmological observation that can be made with distant galaxies I
wonder?
Edmund
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