just a thought about relativity...

[Mday]

if you do a problem at relativistic speeds, and use 3.0x10^8 as the value of c, well

YOU JUST VIOLATED A PRINCIPLE OF RELATIVITY...

since the speed of light is 2.998x10^8

hehee

funny huh...

 

[PsychoAndy]

<< if you do a problem at relativistic speeds, and use 3.0x10^8 as the value of c, well

YOU JUST VIOLATED A PRINCIPLE OF RELATIVITY...

since the speed of light is 2.998x10^8

hehee

funny huh... >>


Technicalities, technicalities. Is the speed of light really a nice round number like 2.9998x10^8?

 

[Babbles]

Depends on your significant figures as well. The percent difference between those two numbers is 0.067%, which is pretty darned low for any statistical significance anyhow.

Also, 2.998e-8 isn't correct either. There are lots of digits past that, so therefore by rounding up to 2.998e-8 you just violated relativity.

And, I think they have taken a few photons past the speed of light. In space there is a mild resistance; space does have substance (a few months ago PopSci had some issue about future space travel and one of them was that solar sail thing). So, if in a pure noble gas vacum you may be able to exceed the speed of light as found in space.

Or, something like that.

 

[Odoacer]

OO. Time travel.

 

[Mday]

2.998 is also rounded up =D