01-28-2017, 05:00 PM
"The driver was definitely not TomK or one of his work associates, as this fellow seemed to be unfamiliar with any known laws of physics governing motion, mass, or acceleration. Especially acceleration. It took two or three blocks for his weighted down car, with at best three of four cylinders working properly, to even approach the speed limit."
Perhaps not. Maybe the driver was traveling so fast before the intersection he or she didn't realize they should have been using special relativity to calculate their relativistic mass but, instead, was using simple Newtonian physics and therefore underestimated the vehicle's momentum.
I know it's a long shot, but a good defense lawyer may have pointed that out in court had there been an accident. [
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Perhaps not. Maybe the driver was traveling so fast before the intersection he or she didn't realize they should have been using special relativity to calculate their relativistic mass but, instead, was using simple Newtonian physics and therefore underestimated the vehicle's momentum.
I know it's a long shot, but a good defense lawyer may have pointed that out in court had there been an accident. [
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