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    sendconroymail One Mean SOB

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    Actually you don't get shorter the things around you get shorter.
     
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    sendconroymail One Mean SOB

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    No its not.
     
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    The physics taught in High School and the first few years of college are wrong, they are only Approximations.
     
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    Depends on who's watching whom.

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    sendconroymail One Mean SOB

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    The original quote said "The faster you go, the shorter you get. A. Einstein"

    And I said YOU don't get shorter which is correct. If you want to be technical....
    you dont get shorter, but everything around you does.
    you dont gain mass, but someone watching you sees your mass increase.
    time does not slow down for you, but for everyone around you time slows down.

    We talking from the person's perspective who's velocity or gravitational pull increases.
     
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    You are inferring information not in the original statement. There is no reference to the observer, or to the subjects orientation. If the subject is coming toward the observer head on (or feet on), the subject gets shorter.

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    sendconroymail One Mean SOB

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    Ohh god again? The original statement said "The faster you go, the shorter you get". The key word being "you".
     
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    Right, if I watch you go faster, you get shorter. The statement does not specify an observer. That is the whole point to the term relativity; the physical results very relative to the observer. If you go faster and you watch yourself, nothing changes. There is no way to determine the observer from the given information, making both statements equally acceptable.

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    qbee42 and sendconroymail have hijacked this thread for an argument about something Einstein said.
     
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    qbee42 My other car is a boat

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    Yes, and I'm sorry for that. It has devolved into a petty dispute over semantics. I'll stop so we can get back on topic. <qbee42 stains while trying to think of another witty statement; ah, got one!>

    Groucho Marx: "As soon as I get on my horse I'll be off, which is a heck of a way to ride a horse."

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