csdf@mit-vax.UUCP (Charles Forsythe) (08/22/85)
In article <20944@apple.UUCP> lsr@apple.UUCP (Larry Rosenstein) writes: >I don't think that is the right explanation (at least not the >explanation given in the story). When the gravity was nullified the >ball became massless. Massless things (eg., photons) travel at the >speed of light, accounting for the ball's velocity. This has to be the dumbest thing I've ever heard. MASS IS INDEPENDANT OF GRAVITY! Massless things (eg nutrinos) do not travel the speed of light most of the time, and when they do, it's ONLY IN A VACUUM! Good lord, didn't you go to highschool? Anyway, I'm routing this to net.bizarre, because it no longer belongs in net.movies. F=Ma, Larry. -- Charles Forsythe CSDF@MIT-VAX "We pray to Fred for the Hopelessly Normal Have they not suffered enough?" from _The_Nth_Psalm_ in _The_Book_of_Fred_
awinterb@udenva.UUCP (Art Winterbauer) (08/27/85)
> >This has to be the dumbest thing I've ever heard. MASS IS INDEPENDANT OF ^ >GRAVITY! Massless things (eg nutrinos) do not travel the speed| of light >most of the time, and when they do, it's ONLY IN A VACUUM! | > | >Good lord, didn't you go to highschool? ----------------------+ > You mean that place where you're supposed to learn how to spell?