Re: virus: Re: The Fall of Buddhism

Tim Rhodes (proftim@speakeasy.org)
Wed, 12 Mar 1997 23:52:35 -0800 (PST)


On 12 Mar 1997, D. H. Rosdeitcher wrote:

> David McF. wrote:
> > I bump the laser so that the red dot travels from one side of the moon
> >to the other faster than the speed of light. But nothing travels faster than
> >light. How is this possible?
>
> At each successive moment that the laser moves, a different group of
> photons is coming out of the laser. Each photon is going the speed of
> light, but from a different angle. It isn't like there is this group of
> photons moving across the moon faster than the speed of light. -David

David McF might say something else, but I wonder, "Does the dot have
Identity?"

-Prof. Tim