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Subject: Re: Traveling Down That Long Lonesome Highway...
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Date: Tue, 8-Nov-83 17:00:45 EST
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Posted: Tue Nov  8 17:00:45 1983
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" 1) When does the panorama split into two disks?  There will be a separation
     of two degrees between the edges of the two disks when v = .0175 c .

  2) Where is the dividing line and which stars appear in each disk?  The
     dividing line is the y-z plane, and any stars with angle B < 90 degrees
     will be in the forward disk, and B > 90 degrees will be in the aft disk."

Doug Pase seems to contend that a moving observer can stars only within forward
and aft disks, and that some area at 90 degrees to his direction of motion
is black. It just ain't so.

Doug's results would imply that there is some point of transition at which
an object moves from the forward to the aft disk.  But such a transition
is discontinuous and could not possibly be derived from special relativity
because relativistic transformations are *continuous*!  Such results are
usually a tipoff of a mathematical mistake, not a breakthrough.  Most of
the "paradoxes" of relativity can be traced to similar origins.


                                         Jim
Unfortunately,