[Cialug] wifi router

James Shoemaker james at dhlake.com
Sat Jan 16 08:45:59 CST 2010


Tim Wilson wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 14, 2010 at 4:12 PM, Josh More
> <morej at alliancetechnologies.net>wrote:
> 
>> CAT5 uses twisted pair to prevent the weight issues.  WiFi can't.
>>
> 
> Hmm, the reasoning that I heard was different:
> 1. The faster you go, the quicker you'll escape Earth's gravity.
> 2. When you escape Earth's gravity, you'll be weightless.
> 
> Therefore, the faster things go, the more weightless they become.  Since
> packets travel faster on wires, the packets actually became weightless.
> Since wireless is slower, the packets aren't weightless.

   Doesn't that violate special relativity that theorizes that the 
faster you go the heavier you get?

James


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