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Originally posted by Lane
i didnt read the whole thread but here is my contribution. i've studied the relativity theory (with the equations and everything) at school a few times.
here are some facts:
- nothing can travel at or faster than lightspeed
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this is not a fact.
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Originally posted by Lane
- the closer an object gets to the lightspeed, the heavier the mass becomes. thats why it takes more and more energy to accelerate the mass at higher speeds. this mass asymptotically reaches infinity at lightspeed, thats why its not possible to reach that speed.
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really? then how heavy is a light particle?
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Originally posted by Lane
- you don't jump in time, your time line just expands. if you are travelling fast enough to expand time twice, then one day for you will be 2 days for a static object. so its like travelling one day into the future but it takes one day to make this trip.
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this is just woeds on a page. no proof.
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Originally posted by Lane
- This is already being applied to small objects in huge accelerators in labs underground. For example the scientists want to analyze a radioactive molecule that breaks apart in 1 millisecond. But this time period is too short to get the neccessary data. So they create this molecule and accelerate it to very close to the lightspeed in the lab. So the millisecond for the particle actually becomes a minute long for the scientists observing the particle, so it is long enough for them to get the data they need. In other words, the particle travels in time 1 minute into the future, within its 1 millisecond lifespan. Or the particle got 1 millisecond older but the rest of the world got 1 minute older, etc..
They can never get the particles to the lightspeed itself because its not possible as it gets heavier and heavier.
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show us a link before I argue it
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Originally posted by Lane
Now this experiment is being done at several labs around the world and Einsteins theory holds. I dunno how you can debunk it when it works in practise..
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show your work, otherwise its not true. I think they are excellerating these particles for a different reason
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Originally posted by Lane
As far as going faster than lightspeed, it is not possible. But according to some theories it is possible to reach a destination quicker than light by taking some sort of "shortcut" because the lightbeam doesn't neccessarily take the shortest path. But this doesnt mean you are travelling faster than lightspeed.
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this just isn't true.