>From Francis: > Am I correct in believing a near luminal basketball could pass > through the eye of a stationary needle?
That's a new one for me. I'm not a definitive expert on relativity, other than reading a lot of popular books on the most obvious effects relativity produces, but it was my understanding that near luminal objects contract (compress) ONLY in the vectored direction of luminosity. And, of course, it's all relative, my dear Watson. The flattened pancake would think it was you, the observer, as appearing to look more and more like warmed over three-day-old road kill on a summer day road. Gak! My prose is in danger of being accused of being too fragrant, in a luminous way. IOW, the basketball would appear visually to look more and more like a flattened pancake. I invite critiques to illuminate me as to the errors in my illumination on this subject. Regards, Steven Vincent Johnson www.OrionWorks.com www.zazzle.com/orionworks
