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army1987 comments on Evolutionary psychology as "the truth-killer" - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: [deleted] 25 July 2012 02:57:35PM *  3 points [-]

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conversely, when an object is traveling at a rate of 0.1c, it matters greatly that c is finite.

Not that greatly: the size of most relativistic effects is v²/2c² + O(v^4) which for v = 0.1c is 0.005. I would have used a bigger number for the example, say 0.9c.

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