RE: Why Can't Anything Travel Faster than Light?
December 13, 2016 at 2:54 pm
(This post was last modified: December 13, 2016 at 3:19 pm by Rhondazvous.)
(December 12, 2016 at 8:09 pm)Stimbo Wrote: Thank you. 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: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.(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.
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.
I may defend your right to free speech, but i won't help you pass out flyers.
Those who can make you believe absurdities, can make you commit atrocities.
--Voltaire
Nietzsche isn't dead. How do I know he lives? He lives in my mind.
I may defend your right to free speech, but i won't help you pass out flyers.
Those who can make you believe absurdities, can make you commit atrocities.
--Voltaire
Nietzsche isn't dead. How do I know he lives? He lives in my mind.
