begins to walk from the back of the airplane toward the front of the airplane, b

ouncing his basketball as he goes. Maybe the distance between the places where h
is basketball hits the floor of the airplane is about one meter or one yard. If
some people are under the airplane they can mark the place directly under the ai
rplane where the ball hits the floor. Those marks are a meter or maybe a yard ap
art. So everybody agrees that the bounces are about a meter or a yard apart. Lat
er the plane takes off. People still watch it from on the ground. But this time
bounce number 5 is over a place in Gibraltar and bounce number 6 is over a place
in Spain. The distance between bounces is measured in kilometers or miles on th
e ground, but the people on the plane get the same answers they did while the pl
ane was on the ground.
Now