Friday, December 05, 2003

HERES A TRICKY QUESTION

A spaceship is traveling in space at half the speed of light.. Someone turns on powerful beam of light and aims it in the direction the space ship went so that the beam of light catches up to the spaceship and passes it. This is the question: How much faster than the spaceship is the beam of light traveling when it passes the spaceship.
According to scientists the beam of light would pass the spaceship at the speed of light the same as it would have if the spaceship had been stationary. They say they have the experiments and the math to prove it too.

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