Slapping Someone Into Next Week: Exploiting the Earth’s Orbit

Authors

  • James Pierce The Centre for Interdisciplinary Science, University of Leicester
  • Jonathan Cogle The Centre for Interdisciplinary Science, University of Leicester
  • Jacob Cox The Centre for Interdisciplinary Science, University of Leicester

Keywords:

Idiom, Physics, Special relativity, Mechanics, Gravity/orbits, Slapping someone into next week

Abstract

This paper is a follow up to our previous paper where the act of slapping someone into next week using Lorentz Transformations was analysed. This paper investigates whether it would be possible to exploit the orbital dynamics of the Earth to achieve a similar effect. We found that for this to be possible the person would have to travel at 29.73×10^3ms^-1 and leave the Earth’s surface at an angle of 0.06° relative to its immediate direction of travel.

References

Brown, Geoff C. Understanding The Earth. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1992.

Pierce, J. "Slapping Someone Into Next Week." Journal Of Interdisciplinary Science Topics, 2013.

Tipler, P. Physics For Scientists And Engineers. New York: W. H. Freeman, 2008 .

Williams, David R. Earth Fact Sheet. November 17, 2010. http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/planetary/factsheet/earthfact.html (accessed March 17, 2013).

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Pierce, J., Cogle, J., & Cox, J. (2017). Slapping Someone Into Next Week: Exploiting the Earth’s Orbit. Journal of Interdisciplinary Science Topics, 2. Retrieved from https://journals.le.ac.uk/index.php/jist/article/view/711

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Vol. 2 (2013)

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