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[John K Clark]

Me:
>> An instant after you start moving you receive
>>a report from  the fellow at the other end of
>>the string saying he hasn't started moving yet.


"Jeff Davis" <jrd1415 at gmail.com>

> I don't understand.  According to the setup both acceleration
> profiles are identical.  You and your counterpart at the 
> other end of the  string know this.  So why then would you 
> get such a message


Light does not move at an infinite speed, so any message I receive
must have originated sometime in the past; hence if I receive a 
message from the other end of the string the instant I start moving 
it is going to say that end hasn't started moving yet.

 John K Clark