Acceleration Physics

[grayze]

Think about dropping 2 balls from a tower, 1 a few inches above the other, release them at the same time and the gap will stay the same between the balls until they hit the ground.

If you dropped them next to each other they would hit the ground at the same time.

[Mr2Mike]

Max_Torque said:

Only if they accelerated to beyond the speed of light, would the distance between them change. So they would have to be either the Starship Enterprise or a 335d..........

There's simply no comparison, the Enterprise could only manage Warp 9.8

grayze said:

Think about dropping 2 balls from a tower, 1 a few inches above the other,

Won Hung Lo leaping from a tall building?

[TheInternet]

grayze said:

Think about dropping Mr and Mrs Ed Balls from a tower, 1 a few inches above the other, release them at the same time and the gap will stay the same between the Balls until they hit the ground.

[RobM77]

Max_Torque said:

Only if they accelerated to beyond the speed of light, would the distance between them change. So they would have to be either the Starship Enterprise or a 335d..........

That's not strictly true. Relativistic effects occur as soon as an object moves, but at normal road speeds the difference between the distances measured by a stationary observer and the drivers of the cars would be immeasurably tiny. That difference would increase up to the speed of light, but you couldn't go beyond it - according to relativity anyway; at the speed of light the cars would be infinitely big, with infinite mass and time would appear to stop, so going beyond it, or indeed attaining it, is not possible. Unless you're in your Dad's mapped 335d with the seats folded down of course.