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Subject: Re: Query - re. Speed of Light
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Date: Tue, 4-Oct-83 17:50:51 EDT
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Posted: Tue Oct  4 17:50:51 1983
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	From: srm@pyuxnn
		I'm driving down the NJ Turnpike at the speed of light.
		I turn on my headlights.
		Does anything happen?
			(I was just wondering.)

1. If you are driving at 99.9999% of C, then the
headlight beam propagates away from you at C.

2. If you are driving at C, then you have transgressed 
the {known, well-understood, apparent -- pick one} laws
of the universe and you will be stopped by the next
traffic cop, who will of course catch you by riding a
tachyon-constituted motorcycle.

Darth Wombat