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From: Peter Pearson <ppearson@nowhere.invalid>
Newsgroups: comp.lang.python
Subject: [OT] Re: Hyper-spacial ray-tracer
Date: 5 Oct 2013 15:26:28 GMT
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On Fri, 04 Oct 2013 20:17:52 -0400, Rouslan Korneychuk <rouslank@msn.com> wrote:
[snip]
> I was also wondering about general relativity. I'm not going to go into 
> too much detail, but basically: if an object with synchronized clocks on 
> either end of it, passes by a static observer while traveling near the 
> speed of light, to the outside observer, the object will appear shorter 
[snip]

That's special relativity, not general relativity.  Python is
very sensitive to that distinction.

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