In a message dated 4/12/99 8:27:29 AM Eastern Daylight Time,
toobmany@bigpond.com writes:
<< Now, what's the answer to the average speed question? Or was
I asleep?
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The answer was that you already used up all your time at 30MPH, so you can't
go fast enough to have an average speed of 60MPH over 2 miles. (The first
mile was at 30 and took you 2 minutes -- to do 2 miles at 60 would take only
2 minutes -- but you used the 2 minutes going 30.)
The answer, given by the original poster, who has now been forgotten
(Sorry!), was that the second mile would have to be done at light speed to
compress time to zero, allowing an average speed of 60MPH over the two miles.
Not very practical because it would assume instantaneous acceleration to
light speed and you would not be in very good physical condition after that,
nor would your LBC.
I should point out that this time compression thingy would ONLY be from the
point of view of the occupant of the (ridiculously fast) LBC. His/her clock
would stop at light speed. An observer would experience the time it takes to
go that second mile at light speed, which is fairly short (0.000005376
second), but, nonetheless, would still occur, making the actual average speed
just under 60MPH!
For more information, read the book, "Alice in Quantumland" by Robert
Gilmore. If you can synchronize dual carburetors, you can understand this
book.
Okay, enough riddles, back to LBC content.
Allen Hefner (quantum physics are us)
'77 Midget
'92 Mitsuibishi Expo LRV Sport
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