From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,9fbc059a74d74032 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2001-05-31 12:00:26 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!newsfeed.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!cpk-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!cambridge1-snf1.gtei.net!news.gtei.net!bos-service1.ext.raytheon.com!bos-service2.ext.raytheon.com.POSTED!not-for-mail Message-ID: <3B1694C7.3B335255@ftw.rsc.raytheon.com> From: Wes Groleau X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.75 [en] (WinNT; U) X-Accept-Language: en,es,fr,pt MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: OT: Relativity misunderstood References: <3B167715.AA497455@ftw.rsc.raytheon.com> <43vR6.7267$rn5.338101@www.newsranger.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Thu, 31 May 2001 14:00:23 -0500 NNTP-Posting-Host: 151.168.144.162 X-Complaints-To: news@ext.ray.com X-Trace: bos-service2.ext.raytheon.com 991335626 151.168.144.162 (Thu, 31 May 2001 15:00:26 EDT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 31 May 2001 15:00:26 EDT Organization: Raytheon Company Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:7948 Date: 2001-05-31T14:00:23-05:00 List-Id: > The way I remember Carl Sagan explaining this on Cosomos way back when, this is > true only as long as you are still going at those different relative speeds. > Once one of you applies acceleration in some direction to make up the speed > difference, the "looks the same to each observer" aspect of relativity is off. I never watched Cosmos, but that was my point #1 > Thus when you are done accelerating (decelerating) so that you and the other > observer are at the same relative speed, you will indeed appear to have aged > very little compared to them. And my point 2 was that the observation of time dilation is NOT a one-way thing as the pop culture suggests. Not that this has anything to do with leap seconds or Ada. -- Wes Groleau http://freepages.rootsweb.com/~wgroleau