Re: Elementary relativity problem

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On 4/4/2016 4:25 PM, Jens Stuckelberger wrote:
> On Mon, 04 Apr 2016 18:43:22 +0000, Richard Tobin wrote:

>> According to Psalm 90:4,
>> "a thousand years are in your sight but a single day".
>>   How fast is God travelling relative to the earth?
>
> What a pathetic little god that is, that needs to travel.

If God were traveling faster than light
    (which maybe there would be some Bible verse
    that could be read that way -- I don't know)
it wouldn't be pathetic at all.

    There was a young lady named Bright,
    Whose speed was far faster than light;
    She started one day
    In a relative way,
    And returned on the previous night.

       -- A. H. Reginald Buller in Punch (Dec. 19, 1923): 591.

There is a saying:
"Special relativity, causality, faster-than-light: pick any two.

I'm not sure how breaking causality would work --
having an UNDO button for reality? -- but it wouldn't
seem at all pathetic to me.

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Elementary relativity problem richard@cogsci.ed.ac.uk (Richard Tobin) - 2016-04-04 18:43 +0000
  Re: Elementary relativity problem Helmut Wabnig <hwabnig@.- --- -.dotat> - 2016-04-04 21:03 +0200
    Re: Elementary relativity problem Double-A <double-a3@hush.com> - 2016-04-04 12:07 -0700
  Re: Elementary relativity problem Jim Burns <james.g.burns@att.net> - 2016-04-04 15:17 -0400
  Re: Elementary relativity problem Jens Stuckelberger <Jens_Stuckelberger@nowhere.net> - 2016-04-04 20:25 +0000
    Re: Elementary relativity problem Jim Burns <james.g.burns@att.net> - 2016-04-04 19:20 -0400
      Re: Elementary relativity problem Jens Stuckelberger <Jens_Stuckelberger@nowhere.net> - 2016-04-05 01:28 +0000
  Re: Elementary relativity problem William Elliot <marsh@panix.com> - 2016-04-04 22:08 -0700
    Re: Elementary relativity problem benj <none@gmail.com> - 2016-04-05 01:37 -0400
  Re: Elementary relativity problem "David Canzi" <dmcanzi@uwaterloo.ca> - 2016-04-07 01:09 +0000

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