To: KevinDavis
OK Class... for your final question.
If the radio signal left alpha centaurs 150,000 years ago and a Laser signal went out fifty years later... how many lightyears till the Laser passes the Radio signal???
Show your work.
Extra Points if you answer the question without a calculator
3 posted on
04/11/2006 7:38:02 PM PDT by
Chode
(1967 UN Outer Space Treaty is bad for America and bad for humanity - DUMP IT. American Hedonist ©®)
To: Chode
Both move at c IIRC.
6 posted on
04/11/2006 7:41:40 PM PDT by
Riley
("What color is the boathouse at Hereford?")
To: Chode
It will be fifty years behind the radio signal. It will not pass it.
18 posted on
04/11/2006 8:05:26 PM PDT by
cpdiii
(roughneck (oil field trash and proud of it), geologist, pilot, pharmacist, full time iconoclast)
To: Chode
19 posted on
04/11/2006 8:10:37 PM PDT by
bill1952
("All that we do is done with an eye towards something else.")
To: Chode
Tricky. Hey, am I the only man on this planet that thinks that light moving as a body through space is nonsense? I think the idea of "light years", as most understand it, is absurd.
27 posted on
04/11/2006 9:10:48 PM PDT by
Jaysun
(If anything is possible, then it's possible that nothing is possible.)
To: Chode
The speed of light is the speed of light. Laser light propogates at the same speed as microwave radiation.
36 posted on
04/12/2006 9:41:31 AM PDT by
Tallguy
(When it's a bet between reality and delusion, bet on reality -- Mark Steyn)
To: Chode
40 posted on
04/12/2006 9:50:04 AM PDT by
dljordan
To: Chode
Come on--give us all the information we need to solve this story problem! Everyone knows it depends on whether the radio signal was sent via AM or FM, and what the color of the laser beam is.
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