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Yes indeed I don't even remember who said this however we got a lot of mail

we got a lot of mail well listen to your show I know that you made a serious

technical error so what what's new in advising a gentleman from St. Louis

you suggested if he drove faster relativistic effects would shrink his

Ford Fistiva to a vanishingly small side I remember is the Lorentz contraction

here's another one I'm gonna read I have to read this one in its entirety and

I'll tell you why before you throw this letter away I'm not in any way

related to that 13-year-old brat molotum piece last week a gent from England

called him with a problem on his Ford Fistiva aside from his problem he had a

theory that the small size of his car made him less of a target for accents

one of you knuckleheads knuckleheads this is serious oh the reason he said I'm

not related to him unless the Peterson is his name is John Peterson and one of

you knuckleheads commented that if the Fistiva approached the speed of light

it would get even smaller your theory of relativity must be the quasi-automotive

theory of relativity according to Professor Einstein's theory of special

relativity mass increases as objects approach the speed of light I didn't say

I wouldn't get heavy don't give away the answer we'll kill him later this means

that the Fistiva would get larger instead of smaller home contrite John I thought

I would include an excerpt from Stephen Hawking he even spelled it on Stephen

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