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To: cuban leaf
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Thank you for posting. I do not understand what you mean, though. Your words seem to contradict because "travel" and "speed" do not go with "are everywhere at once."

Thanks in advance for any clarification . I do like mental experiments, though the idea of travel at the speed of light is so difficult. If you accelerated to almost the speed of light somehow, it would take all the stored energy of the universe to push you up that last little bit to get to that speed. Would that be a velocity? What "direction" would you be going?

106 posted on 11/09/2019 8:20:23 AM PST by BDParrish ( Please correct me! I never learned anything from anybody who already agreed with me.)
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To: BDParrish

According to einstein’s theory, the faster you travel, the slower time passes. And it eventually reaches “zero” at the speed of light. Theoretically, mass can’t travel at the speed of light because it also increases as does the power needed to increase speed, eventually requiring “infinite” power, which is also theoretically impossible.

But light, being energy, has no problem with it. So, if something is traveling at the speed of light, and has consciousness, from its perspective, no time passes on a journey of one light year, which means you are at both your beginning point and end point - and at every point in between - at the same time.

And between you and that galaxy you are looking at through a telescope that may be millions of light years away, every point between you and that galaxy contains the light being transmitted by that galaxy for as long as it exists and you can see it. And that light is being projected in an infinite number of “lines” because it’s projection is spherical. Meaning the light from that galaxy is, from the light’s point of view, everywhere at once. And that goes for the light of every star and galaxy you can see. This brings up another point: The universe is absolutely CRAMMED with light. It is everywhere. And it is everywhere at the same time.

And God is light.


110 posted on 11/10/2019 6:08:18 AM PST by cuban leaf (The political war playing out in every country now: Globalists vs Nationalists)
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