Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxr!mhuxj!mhuxt!houxm!vax135!cornell!uw-beaver!tektronix!hplabs!sri-unix!mikes@AMES-NAS.ARPA From: mikes@AMES-NAS.ARPA Newsgroups: net.physics Subject: Re: re long scissors Message-ID: <274@sri-arpa.ARPA> Date: Fri, 14-Jun-85 11:09:21 EDT Article-I.D.: sri-arpa.274 Posted: Fri Jun 14 11:09:21 1985 Date-Received: Mon, 17-Jun-85 04:06:33 EDT Lines: 6 From: mikes@AMES-NAS.ARPA (Peter Mikes) The fundamental problem with wery long scissors is an ~ implict assumption ~ that blade is a rigid body. a rotating rigid body -- a sweep of a blade, lead to superluminal if size is large enough. But how do you define a rigid body in a Lorentz covariant form ??