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From: woods@hao.UUCP (Greg Woods)
Newsgroups: net.startrek
Subject: Re: Star Trek Flaw??
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Date: Wed, 12-Oct-83 11:29:19 EDT
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Posted: Wed Oct 12 11:29:19 1983
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alled "fudge factor" formulas for
converting Newtonian equations into relativistic ones by multiplying or
dividing by sqrt(1-(v*v)/(c*c)) will turn out to be inaccurate when V gets
close to C. 

		   Greg "I'd never post this to net.physics" Woods
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