“No,” he said, “I mean that relativity will give you the wrong answer, because things moving at the speed of artillery shells are governed by Newtonian mechanics, not relativity.”
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By “relativity” he must have meant the ultrarelativistic approximation, of course.
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[extreme steelman mode on]
By “relativity” he must have meant the ultrarelativistic approximation, of course.
[extreme steelman mode off]
:-)