Hi all,
This is my first post other than my introduction. In fact, This is my first time as a member of any forum whatsoever, so please forgive me in advance if I commit a
faux pas.
I would like to discuss the reason that there is a speed limit to travel through space. We are all familiar with the constant
C, I am sure. This constant represents the speed of light or any radiant energy through the vacuum of space. The speed of light through the vacuum of space is a constant 186,000 miles per second, or for our metric friends, 299,792,458 meters per second (1,079,252,848.8 km/h). Why is this the speed limit for radiant energy in our universe? Or perhaps the better question would be why is this the speed limit for movement through space?
First, what is radiant energy? Radiant energy is the fifth state of mass. Mass can exist in any of five transformed states depending upon its current energized state. From least energized to most energized (or from most density to least density) mass exists as one of five states;
solid,
liquid,
gaseous,
ionized gas, and
radiant energy.
Mass, no matter what its current density or energized state, creates an expansion of the space around it. Space can only expand at a constant of
C. Mass can only travel through space as fast as the space around it can expand. Therefore mass, no matter how little density it has, will always be held to the speed at which the space around it can expand. Since the speed limit for the expansion of space is
C, then the speed limit for mass to move through space must also be
C. The true representation of
C
then is not the speed of light or radiant energy through the vacuum of space, but
the expansion speed of space itself.
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