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Consider this. It is impossible for matter to travel at the speed of light, yes? However, imagine a cannon on a train travelling (speed_of_light - 10 MPH). Th
by palish 17y ago
Consider this. It is impossible for matter to travel at the speed of light, yes? However, imagine a cannon on a train travelling (speed_of_light - 10 MPH). The cannon shoots a cannonball at 210 MPH. So when the cannon fires, you'd expect the cannonball to go (speed_of_light + 200 MPH), right? Well, no... matter cannot exceed the speed of light. What actually happens (afaik) is time itself is altered as one approaches the speed of light. So the closer you are to the speed of light, the more time is altered.
I don't know any of the details though.
- theblackbox 17y ago"It is impossible for matter to travel at the speed of light, yes?" isn't this an oft quoted erroneous conclusion? I thought the correct statement was that matter could not accellerate to the speed of light. Thus something could instantaneously attain FTL/Light Speed velocity or come into existance travelling FTL/Light Speed?