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Originally Posted by baudrunner Hi, Lloyd,
You're certainly entitled to your opinions and ideas. However, it occurs to me that stubbornly refusing to accept that superluminal velocities are possible (even though superlumina is curently being proved in the lab) involves the same style of thinking as insisting that God created the Universe. Why did God create the Universe? Because the bible says so. Why can't we exceed the rate of atomic interaction (speed of light)? Because Einstein says so.
I wish that we had both lived in Einstein's day so that I could hear your refutations of SR and GR in real time. You reject these theories yet they are the foundation for establishing speed of light limitations.
Incidentally, I would like you to explain just why we cannot achieve superluminal velocities. SL |
Ah yes, the super-luminal is curently being proved in the lab; that's funny, last I checked it is impossible, period - and that is mathematical logic. And as to why we can not achieve super-luminal is very simple. When any matter is speeded to the speed of light, it must increase mass and shrink in size. At the speed of light any matter just plain turns into quanta of light, zero mass, period - matter approaching speed of light is required to exit massive quanta. These facts have been known since early quantum studies, whether of Plank, Poincare, Lorentz or whomever. The formulas have been around since then. These same formulas exist all over this site, I don't know but even you have posted about them - remember Feynman's renormalizations' infinities to avoid just such truths - and I might further add, to destroy the whole mathematical integrity of quantum mechanics for half a century, plus. As a further explanation, when solid matter of any mass approaches the speed of light, it must give up massive amount of quanta to continue toward speed of light, as light at the speed of light loses its cohesive power and such matter starts to lose all it coherence - remember Lorentz transformation math stops at 85% of light speed, as math starts approaching infinities and becomes too difficult to continue. The opposite of the above is simply the reverse process of wave/particle building from first quantum processes on.
You and I in two rocket ships, looking out windows at each other, as we approach the speed of light would disintegrate and not see each other any longer, as light couldn't travel fast enough to reach our eyes, or hold our molecular structure together. Einstein's clock and measuring bars disappear at the speed of light, not go backwards and shrink. Even Einstein was aware of this but exaggerated physics since has another tale to tell, many other tales to tell. One of Einstein's true theories were quanta of light imagined in a mirror, a much more real tale. Sorry, but I adhere to the newer physics of wave structured matter, and infinite space quantum energy.
Incedently, speed of light limitations have nothing to do with SR or GR. Speed of light limitations existed billions of years before, and many measured before Einstein. As to SR and GR establishing limits as refers to science, it never was seen before either - light, each time it was measured, was always the same, with small errors of such measurements.
BTW, there's nothing stubborn about stating what is known to be outside of logic.
Lloyd