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Re: Help w/ Relativity Problem?

On Tue, 2 Apr 1996, Stanley J. McCaslin wrote:


An observer on the ship would say the light traveled 200 + .95cT
or 200 + .95c(6.67e-7)c = 390 m

How can this be, since the problem states that the ship observers
measure the ship to be only 200 m long, and this must be the distance
the light travels for them.

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