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Flexgun – Oh I did try to look them up and got a whole whack of variant answers and lots of references to star trek. From what I can tell this is an open forum to discuss physics and related topics and questions. I came to this forum in good faith and intention to ask what I thought was a...

God you physics guys are a bit uptight. The responders did not have to take any to answer this but it was a genuine question.

Thanks guys I get it now. Didnt know this was the wrong forum for this type of question first day here and until we have another pub night trying to bash Einstein after a couple beers probably the last.

Good sketch ryan. Was doing one up in paint shop which would have been embarrassing to post to the wild. It takes A 20 seconds to travel to C. And 20 seconds for B to travel to D. There are 20 light seconds of distance between C & D. So after 20 seconds both a & b have arrived at C & D...

Is that the right link. It just leads to a page that says this.

Okay let's try this from another angle. Lets add observers C & D they are exactly 10 light seconds from the guy in the middle throwing the balls. The balls are thrown at the same time with observers A & B on board. They travel for exactly 20 seconds each and are caught by observers C & D...

Speed of light = 299792458*m/s Half of the speed of light = 149896229 m/s I throw ball one at 149 896 229 m/s in one direction. I throw ball two in exactly the opposite direction at 149 896 229 m/s. Both balls are moving away from me at 149 896 229 m/s. An observer on ball one would see me...

Some friends and I were out at a pub last night and this question came up. If you were in space and you had two balls. You threw one ball in one direction at half the speed of light. You through the other ball in exactly the opposite direction then relative to each other they would be traveling...