Re: A89: What's Wrong?
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Re: A89: What's Wrong?
the theory of realitivity puts an upper not lower limit on the speed of light
Cullan
Kevin Goodsell wrote:
> I'm still confused. Was my earlier statement right or wrong? I said that the
> speed of light varies depending on what it is passing through, but the speed
> of some particular beam (or photon, or whatever) of light appears to move at
> the same speed regardless of the speed of the observer. Is that roughly what
> relativity says? A lot of people seem to think that it says light *always*
> goes the same speed, but I'm almost sure this is wrong.
>
> -Kevin
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Nitrocloud@aol.com <Nitrocloud@aol.com>
> To: assembly-89@lists.ticalc.org <assembly-89@lists.ticalc.org>
> Date: Wednesday, January 17, 2001 6:26 PM
> Subject: Re: A89: What's Wrong?
>
> >
> > I earlier stated that the speed of light cannot be changed, but I admit
> >now I was wrong. My dad explained about principals I never heard of such
> as
> >for light to bend it slows. Now I understand everything. I'm sorry for my
> >wrong.
> >
> > But you have to give me credit, I'm an eighth grader in Physical
> Science,
> >and athe book doen't go into to much detail about light.
> >
> >--Nick
> >
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Ryan Cullan
Cullan@calc.org
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