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Why Can't Anything Travel Faster than Light?
December 12, 2016 at 9:33 am
I understand from reading Hawking that an objects mass increases as it approaches the speed of light, thus requiring more energy, and since more energy is required than that which is available, the object can never reach the speed of light.
My question is why does speed increase mass. I suspect that I don’t have a clear understanding of what mass is. I associate mass with weight. But that definition doesn’t help me agree with the idea that nothing can travel faster than light since in a vacuum where there is no gravity and thus no weight/mass an object could theoretically travel faster than light
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RE: Why Can't Anything Travel Faster than Light?
December 12, 2016 at 9:43 am
Best ask Alex, since he seems the most qualified to answer your question. Far as I understand it, there already have been experiments at Cern beating that absolute. Not wanting to make a perfect fool of myself, I don't go into details. But I seem to remember they shot something out that was faster than light.
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RE: Why Can't Anything Travel Faster than Light?
December 12, 2016 at 9:48 am
The "Satan Particle" would be the perfect name for it.
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RE: Why Can't Anything Travel Faster than Light?
December 12, 2016 at 10:10 am
Weight is a function of gravity, which is proportionate to mass - which is why on the Moon you would weigh a sixth of what you do on Earth. However, mass is essentially the amount of matter contained in an object. The two are not the same.
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RE: Why Can't Anything Travel Faster than Light?
December 12, 2016 at 10:23 am
(December 12, 2016 at 10:10 am)Stimbo Wrote: Weight is a function of gravity, which is proportionate to mass - which is why on the Moon you would weigh a sixth of what you do on Earth. However, mass is essentially the amount of matter contained in an object. The two are not the same.
Now that was clear, concise, precise and to the point. Do we understand why the mass (amount of matter) increases as an object approaches the speed of light?
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RE: Why Can't Anything Travel Faster than Light?
December 12, 2016 at 10:27 am
The physicists are coming, the physicists are coming!!!
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RE: Why Can't Anything Travel Faster than Light?
December 12, 2016 at 10:30 am
The same way Oprah does as she approaches the end of the cake shipment.
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RE: Why Can't Anything Travel Faster than Light?
December 12, 2016 at 10:32 am
(December 12, 2016 at 10:30 am)Stimbo Wrote: The same way Oprah does as she approaches the end of the cake shipment.
Whether this response is to my post above or Rhondavous's above that does not matter. It works either way.
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