Recent content by bdartt

I guess that's why I'm treading in the realm of Philosophy. Mathematically speaking, it is impossible to imagine traveling at the speed of light. And mathematically speaking, everything begins to break down as you get closer to the big bang. I think those two facts are tied together. You...

I realize that. If an observation point is moving at a speed approaching the speed of light, the amount of time passing outside of that point becomes a limit approaching infinity, and the amount of space being observed would also be a limit approaching infinity. If this observation point...

After mulling over special relativity for a while, I have come to some conclusions that seem correct, but I don't know if I'm on the right track. I'd like to know what some of you think. Please keep in mind that I only recently started learning about relativity, so I'm somewhat of a layperson...