"Hello Houston, we have a problem"."We copy you, Apollo 55. What SEEMS to be
problem"?
"It's
arithmetic. Everything looks so different from up here. As Charles Douglas Wehner pointed out, at http://wehner.org/agrav , our speed is added to that of anything that is coming towards us, or orbitting towards us. It is taken away from
speed of anything moving or orbitting in
same direction as us".
"We copy you, Apollo 55. That's no problem. If A plus B equals C, then C minus A is B. If E is twice F, then F is half E. Just reverse all equations, and imagine you are in Houston".
"We copy you, Houston - but
linear relativity of Ernst Mach does not work at these speeds and distances. We have plenty of food, oxygen and fuel. However, we find that
"Mighty Child" anomaly Wehner described in "Spin-Orbit Duality" applies to us (see http://www.goarticles.com/cgi-bin/showa.cgi?C=12988 )".
"We copy you, Apollo 55 - please explain
problem".
"A child has all
energy it needs to spin a top, but would need to be almighty to put
universe into orbit around that top - so spin-orbit duality breaks down. Einstein discovered that he needed to distort time or space, or something - just to make his equations balance. We are forced into non-linear (Einsteinian) Relativity, and cannot make
equations balance. Either we have more than enough energy to get home, or vastly too little. Nor, from up here, can we match
data you have sent us".