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Subject: Re: Re: Why shouldn't time travel leave you in the same spot?
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> through him by the ball (all gravity nullified, it was not accellerated
> along with everything else in our frame of reference, and stayed put while
> the rest of the world whooshed by).  

It was accelerated because it was a massless particle and had to travel at 'C',
not because it was suddenly "left behind as the earth moved".

> 	Two questions:  Does anyone remember the title of this story?

Nope.

> 			How could the slow guy predict which way the ball 
> 			accelerated?  

Yeh, he figured it would keep going in the same direction on the absence of
other forces. A perhaps unwarranted generalisation of Neton, but what the
hell.
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