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Originally Posted by Wolf_Rider
Catwoman would get jealous though...
now to the point... when you can't plausably discredit the fact you resort to ridiculing it. Its an age old human trait, indicating a closed mind.
Ridicule it all you want, but you'll never change the fact that the ball has to travel faster than the carriage in order to travel from the rear to front along the carriage's line of travel.
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Respectfully, you speak of facts without actually determining them. It's a difficult concept to wrap your head around, I know it was for me too, but this concept you are using is hardly new, and Einstein himself postulated it in the early part of the century, and subsequently managed to explain it using his theory of special relativity.
At the time it wasn't possible to test this particular aspect (your example, not every aspect of his theories) experimentally but over the years it has.
If I'm going 50mph in a car and turn my headlights on, the beams still go the speed of light to the observer at the side of the road. The 4th dimension of time adjusts.
This will help explain it for you...
http://www.edge.org/3rd_culture/hillis/hillis_p2.html