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    Undergrad Why is the Speed of Light 186282mps?

    This belongs to the greater question of why some 200 natural constants are what they are. We don't have an answer as they seem independent of one another.
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    Graduate Galilean principle of relativity and Gödel's incompleteness theorems

    I don't see the connection here. The analogy is that the Galilean principle is equivalent to a mathematical axiom. You can't prove the principle as you can't prove an axiom. But you accept both as self-evident. Goedel didn't say anything about axioms. He proved that there are mathematical...
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    Graduate Implications of Movement Greater than Speed of Light?

    The effect of time dilation means that for a still observer the faster you go the more in slow motion you appear to him. At the speed of light you appear completely frozen. Past the speed of light ...you know what happens by now.
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    Graduate Equivalence principle - are all accelerations actually equivalent to gravity?

    In free fall all your molecules feel the same acceleration, that's why you don't perceive it and experience weightlessness. When you are standing still your feet are crushed by all the mass above them. Imagine 'standing' on your palms for a change. Your palms now feel the pressure of your feet...