Posted on 06/08/2012 8:33:17 PM PDT by presidio9
o500 here, I am not cognizant to respond. Only, I wish to point out, the special theory of relativity is not the speed limit - it is a warning sign. “Beyond here there be dragond.”
See, if you go off into imaginary spsce, you are not coming back.
Imagine trying to find a thread, edge-on, somewhere between here and the moon.
Good luck with that.
Hell, if scientist can imagine dimensions of space beyond our 3 spacial and 1 temporal, up to I believe 21, I can imagine a photon existing in 2 or less from its' standpoint. :^)
Well, there is a book title - “What does a photon think?”
Page one - “Nothing - it does not exist in time.”
Pages 2 thru 199 don’t exist.
Mysteriuosly, page 200 contains a single period, somewhat in the middle.
Or is there an alternate universe where the speed of light is the slowest a given particle can travel?
the universe is infinite. Can you prove it is not?Yes.
Only if you go at night.
Calling Doc Brown.
There is a self-consistent theory (quantum field theory), based upon special relativity, Maxwell's equations, and the dirac equation, and its scalar and vector equivalents, that establishes mathematical relationships between various things you can observe. They are mathematical formulae, however. Nothing explains "why" things behave this way. Why can particles never do better than approach the speed of light arbitrarily closely? Why do Maxwell's equations hold? The best theoretical physicist in the world knows know better than the man on the street. It is just so.
If one were to find exceptions then this whole mathematical structure would be a house of cards. But it is pretty well confirmed by observation, and now you can add another set of observations (neutrino velocities measured to high precition over long distances) to the mix.
Imagine, if you will, a sort of Lotus flower, with a stem (linear Space), and axle where stem expands to form a bud (the planar manifestation or expression of all the linear expressions settling into a common rate of expansion), and a bloom or flower opening up (the volumetric variable expression of Space). In our frame of reference of 'now', we perceive dimension Space as a volume that is expanding. At the leading edge of this 'expansion' is planar space being pushed by linear Saptial expansion. Now do the same with dimension Time, since Time and Space seem inextricably interwoven. Our frame of reference for dimension Time is a planar present receiving liner past event effects. we extrapolate future temproal/spatial reality from a frame of reference we define as 'the present', the planar spatio-temporal location, like the 'leading surface' of the expanding universe. The connections are continuous between when the linear variables began expression and where they are now in unison (or not) forming the expanding 'planar edge of spatio-temporal reality.
Imagine, if you will, a sort of Lotus flower, with a stem (linear Space), and axle where stem expands to form a bud (the planar manifestation or expression of all the linear expressions settling into a common rate of expansion), and a bloom or flower opening up (the volumetric variable expression of Space). In our frame of reference of 'now', we perceive dimension Space as a volume that is expanding. At the leading edge of this 'expansion' is planar space being pushed by linear Saptial expansion. Now do the same with dimension Time, since Time and Space seem inextricably interwoven. Our frame of reference for dimension Time is a planar present receiving liner past event effects. we extrapolate future temproal/spatial reality from a frame of reference we define as 'the present', the planar spatio-temporal location, like the 'leading surface' of the expanding universe. The connections are continuous between when the linear variables began expression and where they are now in unison (or not) forming the expanding 'planar edge' of spatio-temporal reality.
uh... we will all be dead.
Now, can you prove it to anyone other than yourself?
Yes.
One of the 'other' reasons was so they could create 'black holes' that would swallow up all the COOL JOCK type guys, leaving all the cute chicks for the nerds.
So... what if it hits a flat piece of glass, or a mirror?
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