Timeline for Is it possible to go faster than the speed of light in vacuum?
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| Jan 5, 2016 at 20:18 | history | edited | Solomon Slow | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Jan 5, 2016 at 19:01 | comment | added | untreated_paramediensis_karnik | @jameslarge in this case could you edit your post and replace subjective time by proper time? Else I can't remove my downvote. | |
| Jan 5, 2016 at 18:38 | comment | added | Solomon Slow | @fffred, :-) Obviously I wasn't thinking out all of the details. I guess it's risky when you start a hypothetical with, "Assuming we could do the impossible,..." There's also a little detail of radiation exposure (if that's the right word for it) as you and your magic rocket collided with the occasional stray hydrogen atom out in the intergalactic medium. | |
| Jan 5, 2016 at 18:36 | comment | added | Solomon Slow | @no_choice99, I did not say you could travel faster than light. In fact, I explicitly said that you would not be able to catch up to a light beam (radio signal) that was making the same trip. I explicitly said that millions of years would elapse on Earth while you made the trip. But your subjective experience of the trip could, in theory, only seem to take a few minutes. | |
| Jan 5, 2016 at 17:49 | comment | added | untreated_paramediensis_karnik | That is false. Even if your body could handle any acceleration, you wouldn't be abe to travel faster than light and light takes more than "a matter of minutes" to travel between galaxies. | |
| Jan 5, 2016 at 17:41 | review | Low quality answers | |||
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| Jan 5, 2016 at 17:35 | comment | added | fffred | There actually are minimum times: in order to reach a high enough speed, you need to carry a rocket producing a lot of energy, which may create a black hole eventually. | |
| Jan 5, 2016 at 17:24 | history | answered | Solomon Slow | CC BY-SA 3.0 |