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Why Can't Anything Travel Faster than Light?
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Why Can't Anything Travel Faster than Light?
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?
Because God would pull any particle over which violated His law, cite and possibly incarcerate it.



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RE: Why Can't Anything Travel Faster than Light?
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?
The "Satan Particle" would be the perfect name for it.
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RE: Why Can't Anything Travel Faster than Light?
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.
At the age of five, Skagra decided emphatically that God did not exist.  This revelation tends to make most people in the universe who have it react in one of two ways - with relief or with despair.  Only Skagra responded to it by thinking, 'Wait a second.  That means there's a situation vacant.'
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RE: Why Can't Anything Travel Faster than Light?
(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?
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.
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RE: Why Can't Anything Travel Faster than Light?
The physicists are coming, the physicists are coming!!!
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RE: Why Can't Anything Travel Faster than Light?
The same way Oprah does as she approaches the end of the cake shipment.

Angel
At the age of five, Skagra decided emphatically that God did not exist.  This revelation tends to make most people in the universe who have it react in one of two ways - with relief or with despair.  Only Skagra responded to it by thinking, 'Wait a second.  That means there's a situation vacant.'
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RE: Why Can't Anything Travel Faster than Light?
(December 12, 2016 at 10:30 am)Stimbo Wrote: The same way Oprah does as she approaches the end of the cake shipment.

Angel

Whether this response is to my post above or Rhondavous's above that does not matter. It works either way.
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RE: Why Can't Anything Travel Faster than Light?
It's basically a fundamental property of nature that doesn't currently have a much deeper explanation. It's one of the direct consequences of the laws of special relativity and can be derived from the axiom that the speed of light is the same for all observers and sources, something that appears to be true.

@abaris: The OPERA superluminal neutrino thing was just a lose cable...
It's one of those typical examples that everyone reads the overhyped articles, and barely anyone the retraction Smile
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