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Why Can't Anything Travel Faster than Light?
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RE: Why Can't Anything Travel Faster than Light?
(December 12, 2016 at 8:09 pm)Stimbo Wrote: Thank you Smile. Probably not necessary, but just to hammer this home: another way to picture the difference is to imagine being in freefall on the ISS. You are weightless, so you float around the cabin. But smacking into the bulkhead is the moment you become aware of your mass.

And that is the moment I become aware that I have a nervous system while the bulkhead does not.

(December 12, 2016 at 11:48 am)Thumpalumpacus Wrote:
(December 12, 2016 at 9:33 am)Rhondazvous Wrote: [...] since in a vacuum where there is no gravity

Just wanted to say, there is indeed gravity in a vacuum; that's why the Earth orbits the Sun, why galaxies coalesced, etc.
Touché since I am at fault for not making myself clear. By vacuum I mean outside the gravitational pull of any other object. In practice it may not be possible to be in such a place, but I'm speaking theoretically/hypothetically/rhetorically.
The god who allows children to be raped out of respect for the free will choice of the rapist, but punishes gay men for engaging in mutually consensual sex couldn't possibly be responsible for an intelligently designed universe.

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Why Can't Anything Travel Faster than Light? - by Rhondazvous - December 12, 2016 at 9:33 am
RE: Why Can't Anything Travel Faster than Light? - by abaris - December 12, 2016 at 9:43 am
RE: Why Can't Anything Travel Faster than Light? - by Tonus - December 12, 2016 at 4:55 pm
RE: Why Can't Anything Travel Faster than Light? - by Cyberman - December 12, 2016 at 10:10 am
RE: Why Can't Anything Travel Faster than Light? - by chimp3 - December 12, 2016 at 10:27 am
RE: Why Can't Anything Travel Faster than Light? - by Cyberman - December 12, 2016 at 10:30 am
RE: Why Can't Anything Travel Faster than Light? - by chimp3 - December 12, 2016 at 10:32 am
RE: Why Can't Anything Travel Faster than Light? - by Cyberman - December 12, 2016 at 10:35 am
RE: Why Can't Anything Travel Faster than Light? - by Alex K - December 12, 2016 at 10:32 am
RE: Why Can't Anything Travel Faster than Light? - by chimp3 - December 12, 2016 at 10:34 am
RE: Why Can't Anything Travel Faster than Light? - by Chas - December 12, 2016 at 10:35 am
RE: Why Can't Anything Travel Faster than Light? - by pocaracas - December 12, 2016 at 10:42 am
RE: Why Can't Anything Travel Faster than Light? - by Alex K - December 12, 2016 at 10:45 am
RE: Why Can't Anything Travel Faster than Light? - by pocaracas - December 12, 2016 at 10:47 am
RE: Why Can't Anything Travel Faster than Light? - by vorlon13 - December 12, 2016 at 11:37 am
RE: Why Can't Anything Travel Faster than Light? - by vorlon13 - December 12, 2016 at 11:57 am
RE: Why Can't Anything Travel Faster than Light? - by brewer - December 12, 2016 at 2:56 pm
RE: Why Can't Anything Travel Faster than Light? - by Alex K - December 12, 2016 at 3:54 pm
RE: Why Can't Anything Travel Faster than Light? - by Alex K - December 13, 2016 at 7:45 am
RE: Why Can't Anything Travel Faster than Light? - by Alex K - December 13, 2016 at 9:55 am
RE: Why Can't Anything Travel Faster than Light? - by Alex K - December 13, 2016 at 3:42 pm
RE: Why Can't Anything Travel Faster than Light? - by Alex K - December 14, 2016 at 3:33 am
RE: Why Can't Anything Travel Faster than Light? - by Alex K - December 13, 2016 at 9:54 am
RE: Why Can't Anything Travel Faster than Light? - by pocaracas - December 13, 2016 at 10:29 am
RE: Why Can't Anything Travel Faster than Light? - by Rhondazvous - December 13, 2016 at 2:54 pm
RE: Why Can't Anything Travel Faster than Light? - by Alex K - December 14, 2016 at 6:58 am

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