From: Eliezer S. Yudkowsky (sentience@pobox.com)
Date: Mon May 13 2002 - 15:54:42 MDT
Edmund Grech wrote:
>
> 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?
NO! Bwahahaha!
...you need to read up on Special Relativity.
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Eliezer S. Yudkowsky http://singinst.org/
Research Fellow, Singularity Institute for Artificial Intelligence
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