From: Reason (reason@exratio.com)
Date: Mon May 13 2002 - 16:46:28 MDT
At least give the guy a URL to start him off:
http://math.ucr.edu/home/baez/physics/Relativity/SR/velocity.html
If you're asking the question below, you probably don't have a good starting
point to find the answer. But use Google first in future.
Reason
http://www.exratio.com/
--> Eliezer S. Yudkowsky
> 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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