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Originally posted by perverse
as when you reached the speed of light according to e=mc2 your mass would become infinite.
Originally posted by DarkHelmet
Originally posted by perverse
as when you reached the speed of light according to e=mc2 your mass would become infinite.
If I'm correct, e=mc2 is Energy= mass time the Speed of light squared. How does this make your mass infinite when you reach the speed of light? Wouldn't that mean that light itself has an infinite mass then?
Originally posted by nyarlathotep
Actually, as the speed of the object is increased, the inertial mass of the object also increases. For speeds significantly less than the speed of light, the increase in mass is nearly imperceptible, but as the speed of light is approached, the mass starts to increase very rapidly toward infinity. Theoretically, the mass would become infinite if the object could be accelerated all the way to the speed of light. However, because the acceleration of an object in response to a given force is inversely proportional to its inertial mass, as the speed of light is approached the force required actually to reach the speed of light also becomes infinite. Therefore, it is impossible actually to accelerate an object with non-zero rest mass to the speed of light.
Originally posted by HowardRoark
I wonder if they found any "fused" bones when the broke up the Eldridge for scrap?
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Originally posted by billybob
very nice. however, what if there was another unseen variable in another dimension? or what if light IS infinite mass? what if mass could be circumvented by vibrationally raising objects to another plane?
i'm pretty sure a slug can't repair an automobile. i'm pretty sure, you can't imagine ceasar's palace when you live in a school of fish.
don't stop being logically minded, but never forget PERCEPTION is a very big word.
Originally posted by nyarlathotep
Those are some pretty big "what-if's". I tend to go with what has already been proven mathematically as seen by here:
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Therefore, we can conclude that it is not possible to travel up to or beyond the speed of light.
Okay, I think you have a really great theory here! Lets see something though- the effects of 60 years worth of time travel. I mean, there must have been some disastrous experiments at first, right? Like the Philadelphia experiment itself, as an example. But where are some of the other effects? Where is the present-day evidence of this perfected technology?
Originally posted by ufochaser
I think it is possible that it really happened and like you said if they figured out how to time travel back then, how far have they come with it now? I am not sure we have traveled thru time yet. How would we know? If we went back and changed something, if you follow "Back to the Future 2" logic, it would create an alternate 2003 and said time traveler would go back to alternate 2003.