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Re: Paradoxes

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Originally Posted by Holtzman
Heres one for ya.

Your in a space ship, going faster than light traveling away from the earth. You look through a powerful telescope back at people on earth. What would you see? if anything at all? Would it appear that people are moving in reverse? Tricky eh

On a similar note, same scenario, except you look away from the earth. What would you see? Since your traveling faster than the light traveling in the same direction as yourself, you would be catching up to them... so would you be able to see things that are happening behind you? Very Tricky
Remember, according to special relativity, that no matter how fast you go, the speed of light is still c relative to you, same c as observed from our relatively slow point of observation on Earth. So you wouldn't out running the light reflected from Earth, they would appear anyway.
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