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>Which is impossible, because you'd need an infinite amount of energy to do that. To date I’ve never seen any experimental evidence that the energy required fo
by newZWhoDis 4y ago
>Which is impossible, because you'd need an infinite amount of energy to do that.
To date I’ve never seen any experimental evidence that the energy required for
A -> B = DV1
X -> Y = DV2
Where X >>> A and DV1 == DV2, was any different. I’ve read countless people claiming it is so under existing theory, but again I’ve seen no concrete experimental evidence.
Imagine two people standing on the “nose” of two mostly identical but different asteroids in vacuum, where one is traveling at 1000mph relative to galactic center and another at 95% the speed of light.
If both jump with equal force I believe they’d accelerate the same, though one should in theory require far more energy to do so if acceleration towards C requires exponentially increasing energy.
I’m aware of the existing theory hack around “reference frames” and that the rate of time is different in each location due to the dV but I don’t actually believe that any of that occurs for macroscopic masses.
There’s better evidence velocity messes with our clocks than velocity messes with time.
- yarg 4y agoforce = mass * acceleration. At relativistic speeds, the mass goes up (significantly). So the same amount of force results in lower acceleration.
- RetpolineDrama 4y ago>At relativistic speeds, the mass goes up (significantly). What evidence is there of this actually occurring with any human-scale masses?
- ndsipa_pomu 4y agoI'd guess none for human-scale masses, but lots of evidence from particle accelerators of electrons having huge mass/energies.
- yarg 4y agoGood luck witnessing a human sized thing moving at that sort of speed. There's this, however: https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/stars-that-race-through-space-at-nearly-the-speed-of-light/ https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/stars-that-race-t...
- dragonwriter 4y ago> but I don’t actually believe that any of that occurs for macroscopic masses. How could it not if it does for smaller masses? What is the theory for the difference?