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From: herbie@watdcsu.UUCP (Herb Chong, Computing Services)
Newsgroups: net.physics
Subject: Re: Could someone explain why FTL is illegal?  (long message)
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Date: Tue, 6-Nov-84 19:43:46 EST
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Posted: Tue Nov  6 19:43:46 1984
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Weren't the Lorentz transformations derived after it was decided that
the speed of light was the same in all inertial frames?  I know that
the mathematics yields negative energy and all kinds of things like
that for beta greater than 1 in the energy/momentum equations.

Herb Chong...

I'm user-friendly -- I don't byte, I nybble....

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