Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1.chuqui 4/7/84; site apple.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!philabs!cmcl2!seismo!lll-crg!dual!apple!lsr From: lsr@apple.UUCP (Larry Rosenstein) Newsgroups: net.movies,net.books,net.sf-lovers Subject: Re: Why shouldn't time travel leave you in the same spot? Message-ID: <20944@apple.UUCP> Date: Tue, 20-Aug-85 12:50:58 EDT Article-I.D.: apple.20944 Posted: Tue Aug 20 12:50:58 1985 Date-Received: Fri, 23-Aug-85 05:48:46 EDT References: <9793@ucbvax.ARPA> <323@looking.UUCP> <627@mit-vax.UUCP> <790@lll-crg.ARPA> Reply-To: lsr@apple.UUCP (Larry Rosenstein) Distribution: net.movies Organization: Advanced Development Group, Apple Computer Lines: 22 Xref: linus net.movies:5688 net.books:2094 net.sf-lovers:8481 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 UUCP: {nsc, dual, voder, ios, mtxinu}!apple!lsr CSNET: lsr@Apple.CSNET