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From: lsr@apple.UUCP (Larry Rosenstein)
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Subject: Re: Why shouldn't time travel leave you in the same spot?
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Date: Tue, 20-Aug-85 12:50:58 EDT
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In article <790@lll-crg.ARPA> petrick@lll-crg.UUCP (Jim petrick) writes:
>.....
>
>This discussion reminds me of an Isaac Asimov story about two scientists;
>one a slow and cautious thinker, the other a quick, jump-to-conclusions
>type.  
>..... There is a flash, and the quick guy has a hole punched
>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).  
>
I don't think that is the right explanation (at least not the
explanation given in the story).  When the gravity was nullified the
ball became massless.  Massless things (eg., photons) travel at the
speed of light, accounting for the ball's velocity.

-- 
Larry Rosenstein
Apple Computer

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