Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/5/84; site baylor.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!allegra!mit-eddie!think!harvard!seismo!ut-sally!ut-ngp!shell!neuro1!baylor!peter From: peter@baylor.UUCP (Peter da Silva) Newsgroups: net.movies,net.books,net.sf-lovers Subject: Re: Re: Why shouldn't time travel leave you in the same spot? Message-ID: <449@baylor.UUCP> Date: Sun, 18-Aug-85 08:38:38 EDT Article-I.D.: baylor.449 Posted: Sun Aug 18 08:38:38 1985 Date-Received: Sat, 24-Aug-85 02:18:16 EDT References: <9793@ucbvax.ARPA> <323@looking.UUCP> <627@mit-vax.UUCP> <790@lll-crg.ARPA> Distribution: net.movies Organization: The Power Elite, Houston, TX Lines: 21 Xref: watmath net.movies:7453 net.books:2194 net.sf-lovers:9657 > 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. -- Peter da Silva (the mad Australian werewolf) UUCP: ...!shell!neuro1!{hyd-ptd,baylor,datafac}!peter MCI: PDASILVA; CIS: 70216,1076