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horizontal vertigo aka Jake is a 15.6 year old boy, has been a member since July 25, 2007, has scored 6882 submissions, giving an average score of 2.96.

Nov 06 '07 by horizontal vertigo

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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 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 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 on Nov 06 '07 at 10:20am

TheArtRobot just exploded my head.

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 on Nov 06 '07 at 10:27am

sounds like you didn't move an inch.

Noodlegirl on Nov 06 '07 at 10:32am

well you can't. so get over it.

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 on Nov 06 '07 at 2:23pm

this is just something amusing to ponder
like a giant what if

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