Warp nous apporta ses lumieres en ce 2008/01/03 01:50:
> John VanSickle <evi### [at] hotmailcom> wrote:
>> Oh, wait, I thought this was a real-world situation.  Silly me.
> 
>   Given the proper circumstances (not actual trains, but something similar,
> capable of doing the feat), why wouldn't it be a real-world situation?
> 
>   Or are you saying that relativity doesn't work in the real world?
> 
Real word trains can't go fast enough. A freight train 2000m long going twice as 
fast as the fastest maglev will only have a relavistic contraction of atomic 
scale, and a thermal expantion from air friction aproaching 1m.
So, your relativistic seppd solution is not viable. My critical breaking 
solution is at least tryable. Each wagon coupling can contract almost 30cm, 
multiply that by the number of wagons in a typical freight train, and the train 
can contract a few meters.

-- 
Alain
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Methodist: It's not so bad if shit happens, as long as you serve grape juice 
with it.

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