View Single Post
  #23  
Old 27-08-2008, 10:41 PM
sjastro's Avatar
sjastro
Registered User

sjastro is offline
 
Join Date: Jun 2007
Posts: 2,926
Quote:
Originally Posted by gmbfilter View Post
The more follow this thread the less I follow this thread

Since both spaceships are in the same frame of reference, everything is normal, lights work backwards and forward, and bullets do what they do.

For anyone in a different frame of reference eg IIS things would appear quiet different to what the crew on spaceships perceive.

A good physicist should be able to explain it, a couple of belts of wild turkey makes it all seem OK
You would be correct only if the spaceships were travelling at less than the speed of light.

Since this thread was based on spaceships travelling at the speed of light (which of course is impossible) the scenario is very different. The spaceships will behave as photons. There is no front, back, gap or any specific spatial characteristic that can be assigned to photons.

Regards

Steven
Reply With Quote