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What About Going Towards Each Other

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Posted by Mike Banks on June 28, 2001 21:05:49 UTC

But according the relativity direction doesn't matter. If a galaxy was flying towards us and we were moving very slowly, then there clocks should still appear slower to us, and ours faster to them, yet both of our concepts of time would be the same.

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Yes, although finite speed of light makes another correction. - alexander - June 28, 2001 - 22:30 UTC
- Forgive me but my maths skills are not great - highvoltage - June 29, 2001 - 05:37 UTC
  - Gamma =1/(1-v^2/c^2), Galilean = Lorents at c=infinity. - alexander - July 3, 2001 - 01:20 UTC

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