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That is correct. Obviously, given that, you would have no way of stopping, so your arrival would be abrupt (ignoring whatever magical affects would be necessar
by coremoff 5y ago
That is correct.
Obviously, given that, you would have no way of stopping, so your arrival would be abrupt (ignoring whatever magical affects would be necessary to accelerate a massive object to light speed).
- jb1991 5y agoSo in other words, if you can travel at the speed of light, you can be anywhere in the universe instantly, and never have to wait to get anywhere? I will say, that certainly makes no sense to me.
- coremoff 5y agoit's a big "if"; it's not possible for objects with mass to accelerate to light speed. If you were able to do so, yes you could "get" anywhere in zero subjective time - as mentioned earlier, since no time passes for you, there would be no way for you to decide that you wanted to stop travelling at light speed - you would end your existence by impacting something. > that certainly makes no sense to me Humans, as a species, aren't experienced with relavitistic effects; we have no useful inherent intuition as to how things behave at these sorts of speeds. Most of us have to accept the maths and the experiements that demonstrate that our understanding of this behaviour is accurate.