David Cragg wrote:
>  Did you mention manholes? Now we are in the world of relativity
> which asks that (and forgive the non-PC) ... If someone leaves a
> manhole cover off and a fat man running at near the speed of light
> passes over the hole would his reduction in size due to relativistic
> effects cause him to fall down the hole. The 'fat man problem' worked
> for me at college as just a mention and our tutor would talk of
> nothing else leaving us students nod off.
>
>     I am fat so I can say the F word!...David Cragg

Surely if he is going so fast then the momentum will prevent him falling 
anyway... ;-)

Ron Jones
Process Safety & Development Specialist
Don't repeat history, unreported chemical lab/plant near misses at
http://www.crhf.org.uk Only two things are certain: The universe and
human stupidity; and I'm not certain about the universe. ~ Albert
Einstein 


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