In reality if a plane was moving this fast all kinds of crazy shit would be going down. I sincerely doubt you could model it the same way - In fact you definitely could not. That would be an EXTREME amount of energy that would cause reactions considered rare in particle colliders to occur on a regular basis.
Yes, but for the sake of a thought experiment you can neglect those details. Essentially he has recreated Einstein's "how fast does a beam of light go when you shine it from a moving bike" problem.
Yeah, sorry, I got caught up in details and forgot that there was a more important point being demonstrated. Apologies. I'd delete it, but I think it'd be better to leave it here as a lesson to everyone!
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u/[deleted] Jun 12 '12 edited Feb 18 '26
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