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Why stop at 0.95c? Why not just let it go even higher so we can see what would really happen in FTL travel

• techrat 5y ago
  Because FTL travel is not possible, so there's no way to know what would 'really happen.'
  • xwdv 5y ago
    It's possible, but it may or may not require exotic things like negative mass.
    • mr_toad 5y ago
      Imaginary mass, not negative mass.
      • rbanffy 5y ago
        So we can just imagine what it’ll look like? Sorry. Couldn’t resist. But you can have real mass with imaginary energy.
• ordu 5y ago
  I think, divisions by zero would happen.
  • rbanffy 5y ago
    Only at c. Once you are beyond it (even though you can’t pass it), you’ll get squared imaginary numbers, however, which I’m sure would not be healthy for human passengers.
• alphabet9000 5y ago
  i cloned the repo earlier to see what would happen. difference between .95c and .999c is unremarkable. equal to and above 1 results in all of the geometry disappearing, just shows black.
• geofft 5y ago
  You find a number of ships fleeing from a small space station. You hail them, asking what's wrong: "Help! We're being overrun by some sort of giant alien spiders!"
• garmaine 5y ago
  The math is such that the coefficient can never reach 1.