RE: Why Can't Anything Travel Faster than Light?
December 13, 2016 at 1:21 pm
(This post was last modified: December 13, 2016 at 2:51 pm by Rhondazvous.)
(December 12, 2016 at 10:45 am)Alex K Wrote: btw it's not customary any more to call it relativistic mass, usually people simply talk about the energy of the moving object E, and instead of "relativistic mass", it's just E/c^2
(putting on ye old thinking cap)
So if e = m then they will always be equal and never enough e to make v > c. As to why c is the magic number, vorlon has the best answer.
Possible tie in: Only gamma rays have enough energy to transform energy into matter, and that matter is quickly transformed back into energy when the electron/positron pairs collide, so as v approached c and produces e which is transformed back into m the energy lost in this transformation slows it down.
Practical application: You weigh more when you exercise (move) so to lose weight, stand still..
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