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Old 09-23-2011, 10:22 AM  
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Originally Posted by xholly View Post
yes, as sound changes pitch when in motion, light changes colour to be either red for moving away or blue for moving towards the observer. By measuring the red shift or blue shift you can determine an objects speed.
irrelevant to what you quoted.



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Originally Posted by xholly View Post
take a flight in a spaceship at 99.99% speed of light for 5 or so years and when you come back everyone you know WILL be dead or very old. I don't think youve debunked einstein just yet.
no, you'll all be 5 years older, you'll have been covering a lot of distance. nothing more.

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same reason they adjust the clocks on the gps satellites every day, because the clocks literally run at different speeds when closer to a strong gravity source or when travelling at near the speed of light.
since GPS satellites don't travel at the speed of light, I assume you're arguing that gravity effects the ability to properly count time.


If time travel had anything to do with the speed of light, the guys at CERN couldn't have tracked the particles that travelled faster than the speed of light because they would have arrived before anyone knew they were sent.
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