Nick wrote:

I can't follow you Jesse.
Thanks for the discusion anyway.
Hope it was valuable to you.
Mitch Raemsch -- Light




It's not really that complicated. Remember the situation I talked about
earlier, where you have two ships moving together, then one decelerates
until it is at rest in absolute space? Well, this is just like that
situation, except that instead of two ships you have a ship and a planet
that are moving together, and then the ship fires its rockets and
decelerates until it is at rest in absolute space, while the planet
continues to move at the same speed. From the point of view of people on
the planet, won't it look like the ship is flying away from them, even
though it is "really" the planet that is moving and the ship that is
coming to rest?

Jesse