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From: karsh@geowhiz.UUCP (Bruce Karsh)
Newsgroups: net.physics
Subject: Re: "speed of light" puzzle
Message-ID: <186@geowhiz.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 17-May-85 23:00:42 EDT
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Posted: Fri May 17 23:00:42 1985
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Reply-To: karsh@geowhiz.UUCP (Bruce Karsh)
Organization: UW Madison, Geology Dept.
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>Another "real world" example:
>Consider the point of intersection of the blades of a scissors.
>Picture a BIG scissors -  mile long blades.  As you close the
>scissors, the point of intersection could move faster than the
>speed of light even though the blades are moving "slowly".

Consider a paper punch!!  Every point on the circle is being
cut at the same time!! So the "cut point" must go around the
circle at infinite velocity.  And since it's going around
a circle, it's accelerated!!  Wow!!  Einstein was wrong!!

Well, I'm off to Switzerland to collect my Nobel Prize.  See
ya all later!!

:-) :-) :-) :-) :-) :-) :-) :-) :-) :-) :-) :-) :-) :-) :-)

(I bet you can't wait till I disprove Quantum Mechanics too!!)

                   :-)

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