[aaronlangley]

I have an incomplete knowledge of physics, the particular bits and pieces that I know of has lead me to think in a direction that I’ve not heard of elsewhere. Basically I just want to find a forum to throw it out there and see what more knowledgeable people think of it. For all I know it was thought of and ruled out a long time ago or what I’ve based it on is just incorrect. For anybody who actually takes the time to read this, I thank you for humouring me

The outstanding difference in my mind of the macro and massive world and the sub atomical world is the speeds involved. Sub atomic particles are travelling at or close to the speed of light. Surely this makes them very different to whole matter. So in the days when the Relativity physicists were competing with the Quantum physicists, did the former attempt to use that light speed difference to come up with an alternative theory?

From my understanding of relativity: Parts of the universe do not age equally and this is proportional to the speed of light. As a body approaches the speed of light it experiences less time. At the speed of light the state of a body does not change.

Photons travel at the speed of light. So their state shouldn’t change until something slows them down just enough for stuff to happen. Like spin-up or spin-down.

I think of it as absolute light speed, and some speed sightly less than light speed. (Or absolute zero time felt by the particle and time greater than 0. Zero time and plus time.)

So what if a particle such as a photon is undetectable at absolute light speed? Certainly any particle ever observed, has collided with other matter and slowed a fraction.

Might there be a lot more particles that are undetectable simply because they aren’t crashing into anything? And can a particle once at plus time be accelerated to zero time once more? If so, perhaps there might be a cloud of particles at the sub atomic level, and at any one moment only a few can be observed. More over just maybe there are particles at minus time, at the sub atomic level. This would cause all sorts of strangeness.

What is I wonder, the fastest a whole molecule of matter has been recorded to travel, and is it an appreciable percentage of light speed? Is matter always reduced to plasma or even smaller particles when pushed towards light speed (in instances known to have occurred)? Mathematically, can the forces that hold molecules together, keep it together at light speed? (Of course they can accelerate as slow as needed. But the method of acceleration has to be practical, something that can really happen and reach close to light speed.)