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Re: Lost in Space
Posted By: Darien, on host 207.10.37.2
Date: Monday, October 12, 1998, at 20:27:33
In Reply To: Re: Lost in Space posted by Dave on Friday, October 9, 1998, at 13:34:03:

> > Technically, perhaps we would. But picture
> >yourself as a tiny little point on a vast plane.
> >Down from above (A direction you cannot travel
> >in; you're restricted to two dimensions) shines a
> >light which covers the entire plane. Technically,
> >as you draw away from the point-source, it gets
> >dimmer, but your field of movement is so
> >restricted that you cannot ever draw away far
> >enough to cause a serious impact on the
> >illumination.
>
> Your own statement disproves your theory. If you can't travel away or towards the source, you'll never notice a difference no matter how fast you go. Therefore, no time dilation (or Doppler shift of the "light source" you posited above, which amounts to the same thing in your theory.) Since both the Doppler effect and time dilation have been experimentally shown to exist, then your "4D time wave" theory must be wrong, as it contradicts the experimental data.

It would - if I said that. But what I said (or what I MEANT, anyway) is that one cannot travel *directly* away from or toward the source. That is to say, one cannot travel in a direction exactly parallel to the emanations.

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