ASTR 1102 Lecture : Lecture26
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I think there should be a law of nature to prevent a star from behaving in this absurd way! . Why did kip thorne win a year"s subscription to penthouse from. Leave normal ideas of space and time outside . Newtonian" physics, familiar ideas dating back to isaac. The laws of physics are the same whether you are stationary or moving at a constant speed. Whether you are in a plane flying at 400mph, or a spaceship at. 200 million mph (1/3 the speed of light), the same physics as you learned in high school applies. One of the laws of physics is that light travels in a vacuum at about 300,000 km/s = 3x108m/s. Light appears to move at the same speed no matter how fast you are moving. Space and time are not as distinct as we think they are. Really we live in a four-dimensional world of space-time.
