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[Bobby Campbell]

Very well done.  I was just re-thinking the seeming paradoxes of relativity earlier today and stumbled upon this thread.  Nice little synchronicity.  I know that there have been experiments that support relativity but was there one conducted similar to the one in your comic?  I would like to see a write up if anyone knows any good links/journals (I have access to journals online).

I believe maybe only "thought experiments" have gotten conducted in regards to the relativity of simultaneity.

Here's a 2 minute animated video which explains Einstein's train/lightning thought experiment, which served as the original basis for the comic.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wteiuxyqtoM

thanks!

bc

[Bu🤠ns]

i missed this the first tiem around. LOVE YOUR STUFF, BC!!

[Samuel Boone Johnson Thomas Frederik Douglas III]

I believe maybe only "thought experiments" have gotten conducted in regards to the relativity of simultaneity.

Seems like it would be an easy experiment to carry out these days.  You could easily set up an "observer" (photoelectric censor) to be at stationary point that is equidistant between the instantaneous points at which the two "participants" (mirrors/sensors) would be when the light should reach them from a point stationary relative to the light source and two participants.  You could even have them moving in opposite directions at high speeds to increase the effect.

[Bobby Campbell]

Thank you kindly, Burns!

Makes sense to me, Samuel Boone Johnson Thomas Frederik Douglas III!

Wikipedia has this cool animated demonstration...


I need to update that comic, it's falling behind the times!

[Bobby Campbell]

Here's a silly little design exercise I've started playing around w/over at the MLA, taking all the band names from the Ingolstadt Rock Concert scene in Illuminatus! and fabricating albums...

[Cramulus]

these are hilarious!


you really should do one for the AMA

[Bobby Campbell]

Oh absolutely, Cramulus!  Thanks for reminding me, neither them or even Clark Kent & The Supermen were on my list...

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

Oh absolutely, Cramulus!  Thanks for reminding me, neither them or even Clark Kent & The Supermen were on my list...

Are you one of the Portland people? Just wondering because I didn't think ANYBODY had ever heard of Here Comes Everybody, but I used to work with the girl one of them, and their CDs were always all over the break room.

[Cramulus]

(Here Comes Everybody is originally a band from the Illuminatus! trilogy... )

[Bobby Campbell]

Thanks for fielding that one, Cramulus!

I found the Portland band Here Comes Everybody on myspace, listening to them now, pretty good!

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

(Here Comes Everybody is originally a band from the Illuminatus! trilogy... )

No shit? I guess I should have talked to that girl more.

[Bobby Campbell]

[Bu🤠ns]

DUDE YES ~!~

[Bobby Campbell]

[Captain Utopia]

This thread is so full of win!



Oh - and there's more on your site too - neat!