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all-fakes
on June 19, 2020
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Sorry, can you explain why the velocities should add that way? I've always just seen velocities add like regular old vectors, so this looks very strange.
_28jh
on June 19, 2020
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Relativity. If they could add that way, you would get 300 megameters/s, which is breaking the speed of light.
Gladdyu
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That'd be special relativity for you - nothing ever exceeds the speed of light, hence a corrective factor needs to be applied.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special_relativity
JadeNB
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Relativistic effects.
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