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To: tophat9000
(remember the faster you go time slows down)

that's an implication of relativity, as opposed to a fact, correct?

26 posted on 08/24/2011 3:19:16 PM PDT by the invisib1e hand
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To: the invisib1e hand
What he is saying is not true.

However, an implication of relativity is a fact. The Special Theory of relativity is about as strongly enforced a law of Physics as any we have.

38 posted on 08/24/2011 3:29:46 PM PDT by FredZarguna (The power of the greatest rock band of all time--now a crack legal team. Coming to ABC this fall!)
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To: the invisib1e hand
that's an implication of relativity, as opposed to a fact, correct?

Correct

50 posted on 08/24/2011 3:42:11 PM PDT by tophat9000 (American is Barack Oaken)
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To: the invisib1e hand
that's an implication of relativity, as opposed to a fact, correct?

No, it's a fact, as it has been observed literally billions of times (subatomic particles in an accelerator decay at a slower rate because of their high speed). They even flew atomic clocks around the globe and demonstrated that they had experienced less time passing. This particular phenomenon is about as ironclad as you get in an experimental science...

63 posted on 08/24/2011 3:50:08 PM PDT by Charles H. (The_r0nin) (Hwaet! Lar bith maest hord, sothlice!)
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To: the invisib1e hand
I regards to relativity and idea of a natural speed limit ...

That nothing can go faster then light

...not that light is the reason...

it just light is what we see hitting the speed limit

The thought experiment I came up with to see this idea of a natural speed limit is ...

imagine some one running in a circle going faster and faster...

at what point to they catch and pass there-self?...

silly right?

but you start to see the issues with time and space....

oddly to an outside looker the someone running in a circle going faster and faster would start look like a single object occupying the entire circle

And pump in more energy to try go in a circle even faster

that single object occupying the entire circle starts looking denser and heaver

I see matter really an oscillating engery wave from this

83 posted on 08/24/2011 4:12:55 PM PDT by tophat9000 (American is Barack Oaken)
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