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Re:Why nothing can go faster than the speed of light by chc on Monday February 21, 2011 @01:52AM (#2244560)
I'm pretty sure he explained that he was talking in terms of general relativity and his simplifying assumption of absolute directions and a stationary viewpoint. As far as I can tell, you haven't explained why that's wrong — merely asserted that there's another viewpoint that can describe the same thing.
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Re:Why nothing can go faster than the speed of light by ars on Monday February 21, 2011 @02:00AM (#2244572)
If you don't understand that there is no such thing as absolute direction or motion then you don't understand relativity at all.

And for him/her to explain things in such a way is a MASSIVE disservice to you and makes it very hard to learn it correctly later.

And it's not even your clock that ticks slower - it's theirs.

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