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  • caden@lemmy.sdf.orgtoFuck Cars@lemmy.mlTrolley
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    2 months ago

    I think it’s correct as-is. Inserting a “were” would make that clause read as independent. With how the sentence is currently structured, that doesn’t work.

    That’s not to say you couldn’t have

    The tracks are now unruley [sic] and wild—the people once tied to them were killed in crosswalks by giant trucks

    if you want, but the comma needs to change to something like a dash or a semicolon. With a comma (i.e., as a subordinate clause), “were” doesn’t make sense.






  • The object doesn’t absorb their mass, but rather their energy (which admittedly can be equated to a mass via a factor of c^2, but that’s not actually what’s happening). The change in momentum that results from a photon hitting you isn’t caused by a change in m, it comes from a change in v. If mass were the quantity being transferred, solar sails wouldn’t work to move anything; they would just sit there and get more massive as photons hit them.