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BIFF wrote:


I THINK U R RITE I ALWAYZ THOT TEH PHYZICISTZ WER HIDING
SUMTHING!!!!11

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Lets say a ship takes off at mars and starts to travel
through space toward the earth; can we say that the
earth is traveling through space toward the ship?
No we cannot. Its motion is only relative to the
absolute motion through space-time of the ship.




Even if there were such a thing as absolute space and absolute motion,
what reason would we have to believe that the earth and mars are at rest
in this absolute space? If the earth and mars were moving at 100 km/sec
through absolute space along the line from earth to mars, and the ship
accelerated from mars towards earth until it was moving 100 km/sec
relative to Mars, wouldn't it be at rest in absolute space?

Jesse