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Not interested in challenging the established theory, actually. To quote you, "just applying the theory" is not likely to provide any insights beyond those allowed within the theory. Fortunately, theories are imperfect, hence cannot support absolute statements of negation. Innovation tends to...

Ahh, just found a translated version! 🙌🏼 https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Translation:Uniform_Rotation_of_Rigid_Bodies_and_the_Theory_of_Relativity Hopefully it’s accurate, at least relatively speaking...😉

Thanks for sharing the paper. Unfortunately, I don’t read German, but Google Translate was able to make some sense of the text. "Now, in a recently published work1) a definition of the relative rigidity, which makes all possible movements. Mr. Born has Definition - the basic idea of the Relati-...

Thanks. This is useful, practical information. 👍

That’s fine... Everyone has their limits, and an actual test would not be feasible. Thanks and best wishes to you...👍

Just as soon as I finish my post-doc in endocannabinoid pharmacodynamics.

That sounds very finalistic, relatively speaking

This thread is my lab...👍

Maybe there is some old, abandoned lab space somewhere on the server where we could conduct thought experiments...?🙂

Perhaps.... but I am someone who does not accept theoretical impossible limits without testing them...

A rotating disk is an easier construct. Perhaps a method could be devised to engineer a disk of smaller size, commence spinning, and then gradually add more material at the periphery until the desired radius is reached...

Yes, nearly 48,000 Km. If the force at that radius was too great for the disk's material to hold together, then the material would fly off at a speed somewhere around c...🧐

Thank you for your replies.

Disintegrate, as in atoms converting into photons? If so, then the disk itself would appear to us observing as a solid disk ringed by light...?

I thought of a disk rotating freely in space at 60 RPM, for example, as a way to move gross matter at and beyond the speed of light. A point on the disk at a radius of 5/π meters would be moving at a speed of 10 m/sec, while a point on the disk at a radius of 50/π meters would be moving at a...