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There is a very interesting concept that indicates that the limit of speed is not light, but the space itself. Space itself is such that it cannot let anything
by sidcool 12y ago
There is a very interesting concept that indicates that the limit of speed is not light, but the space itself. Space itself is such that it cannot let anything travel faster than light. It's like check points in space which slows down light to it's speed we call C.
May be somewhere in the universe, or within the black hole, space is malleable enough to allow faster than light travel. It's just a concept, but a very interesting one.
- gecko 12y agoI just like to think of it at the universe's loading screen.
- zingermc 12y agoWanna know the real reason? C is just the maximum floating point value of the computer that our universe's simulation is running on. Similarly, the Planck length is the value closest to zero.
- sidcool 12y agoThat would perhaps be even more interesting!
- outworlder 12y agoMore likely, it is the maximum speed the physics engine can handle per tick.
- zingermc 12y agoThat's exactly my point. If the speed (= distance / tick) is represented by a float, then we can travel no faster than the max float value.
- sergiosgc 12y agoI reasoned about it in the same vein but with a different approach. We are running in a discrete simulation. The most you can move is one space quantum per time tick. That speed is C.
- laumars 12y agoThat's beautifully put :)
- bentcorner 12y ago"3 x 10^8 m/s ought to be enough for anybody"
- ctdonath 12y agoI recall fragments of a theory that everything moves at the same speed (think multidimensional unit vector), just in various directions (time included as a "direction", explaining why if you travel C in one physical direction "your" time stops). Perhaps someone can point me to a full description of this theory.