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Why is it, if you were on a train, moving at the speed of light, and you threw a ball into the air, it would fall back into your hand, instead of hitting you? please give a detailed answer!

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Answer:

According to Newton's first law of motion, all bodies will remain in a state of rest or continue in uniform motion unless acted on by external forces such that the ball will catch up to fall directly in the palm of the hand from where it is released

Step-by-step explanation:

Given that the ball was already moving along in the train traveling at the speed of light, the horizontal speed of the ball before being released was that of the speed of light such as all objects within the train are traveling with the same speed, they all act as if they are stationary with respect to one another

When the ball is therefore released into the air, it falls back to the point from where it was released which is directly in the palm of the hand.

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