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  Re: Physics, relativity, quantum, etc.  
From: clipka
Date: 22 Jan 2009 10:15:00
Message: <web.49788d6fc995525dbdc576310@news.povray.org>
nemesis <nam### [at] gmailcom> wrote:
> So that's why light takes a lot more time to reach us and thus the after
> image just before the crossing is visible.  OTOH, time and space are two
> sides of the same coin, isn't it?

That's what GR says - yes.

Or, well, maybe they're rather two hemispheres on the same sphere... or
something along that line...

Did you realize that if you're accelerating, you're just turning around in
space-time? (Well, basically, that is - it's a kind of weird type of
rotation...)


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