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horizontal vertigo
horizontal vertigo aka Jake is a 16.97 year old boy, has been a member since July 25, 2007, has scored 8591 submissions, giving an average score of 2.89.
  Nov 06 '07 by horizontal vertigo        8 Comments        Watch this      Share:  Share on facebook    Share on delicious    Share on digg    Share on MySpace    Tweet this    Stumble this    Share this on Kaboodle   
physics related q
this is theorectical
oh lets say u could run so fast around the world that u could catch urself and stop urself from ever leaving in the first place...
wat would happen?
and if u were to slow would there be a never ending stream of urself running around the world?

orwell
orwell on Nov 06 '07 at 4:35am
hmm...i'm pretty much crap at physics, this will give me something to ponder for a bit.
TheArtRobot
   TheArtRobot on Nov 06 '07 at 10:15am
What do you mean you could catch yourself? Do you mean you are moving so fast relative to the surface of the earth that the circumference of the earth contracts to a length less than that of your reach? I'm not sure.
professorE
professorE on Nov 06 '07 at 10:20am
TheArtRobot just exploded my head.
stevetrpi
stevetrpi on Nov 06 '07 at 10:26am
My first answer would be that you could never approach that speed, as it would be instantaneous, making it faster than the speed of light, which is impossible.

Also, as soon as you start running, you've already started running, so you could never catch yourself. Just because you can run that fast doesn't mean you aren't constrained by time.
shirtflirt
shirtflirt on Nov 06 '07 at 10:27am
sounds like you didn't move an inch.
Noodlegirl
Noodlegirl on Nov 06 '07 at 10:32am
well you can't. so get over it.
horizontal vertigo
horizontal vertigo on Nov 06 '07 at 2:23pm
stevetrpi, thnx for that answer, its really good thnx...
artrobot, no no u lit. run around the world to catch urself; so u stop urself from ever leaving but u've already ran acrosse the world... [which was blown outa the water by stevetrpi, lol]
shirtflirt, but theres two of u...
noodlegirl, y bother even putting that comment up...
horizontal vertigo
horizontal vertigo on Nov 06 '07 at 2:23pm
this is just something amusing to ponder
like a giant what if
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