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Posted by Ken Leung at 1/17/2001 10:33 PM EST


Student on team #192, Gunn Robotics Team, from Henry M. Gunn Senior High School.


In Reply to: Re: Functional?
Posted by Matt Leese on 1/17/2001 6:56 PM EST:



: Well, if you accelerate your robot fast enough, time will slow down for the robot (ie relativity).....

: Matt who continues to realize how true Andy B.'s comments about EE is true......

I think you got it the wrong way. The way you say it, the time in the reference frame of the robot will take longer to pass than the outside world. Say the time slow down by 1/2, then when the round ended, the robot have only been through 1 minute because the time on the robot take longer time to pass. So you end up with a really slow robot. Because if the robot can go back and forth the field 10 times in a game, then given 1/2 the time the robot can only go back and forth 5 times. The robot will still thinks there are 1/2 more game time to go, while the viewers see that the game is done.

So what you have to do to get the concept to work is to somehow accelerate the clock to near light speed, so to outside world the clock will seems slower.


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