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Subject: 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.