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jgravatt
Special relativity asserts that an object approaching the speed of light would also increase its mass to the point that even an infinite supply of fuel/energy would not be able to push that little go-kart passed the critical limit of C, right - close enough maybe? Why is C the limit? Is it because space itself is one entity networked together through an infinite number of strings, "things" or whatever. We are limited because we are traveling through space. What if we could travel -through- something that is in space. Something like an anti-space tube (sounds goofy, I know). This tube does not contain the interconnected network of things that limit our speed. Instead, there is nothing or a better yet, a different kind of
network. Since there is nothing or something different, we would not be limited to C, only limited to the property of that network - which could be faster or slower than C. I'm going out on a limb here but assumming something that I don't know. I have heard that the universe is expanding at a rate faster than the speed of light. Maybe that could be explained by this new network. Within space - our universe- , the only network is the one that limits C. Outside of our space, the area that the universe expands -through- may contain a different network of things that allow the universe to travel through it much faster than C can travel on out network.
Not intending to insult any of you by over explaining, but here is a visual.
You have two different drag strips next to each other. In the left lane, Albert Einstein is driving a photon car on a drag strip made up of strings or whatever we currently think the universe is made of. In the right lane, you are driving a mini cooper on a drag strip made up of a diffrent kind of network of things. When the light turns green the photon car can't go any faster than the strip allows - which in his case is C. The mini cooper also can't go faster than his strip allows, but his strip allows him to go faster than C. Another thought - Special Relativity says we can't travel faster than C, maybe C is only C because it is limited on our network. If C was traveling on a different network, maybe it travels even faster.
Jeremy
network. Since there is nothing or something different, we would not be limited to C, only limited to the property of that network - which could be faster or slower than C. I'm going out on a limb here but assumming something that I don't know. I have heard that the universe is expanding at a rate faster than the speed of light. Maybe that could be explained by this new network. Within space - our universe- , the only network is the one that limits C. Outside of our space, the area that the universe expands -through- may contain a different network of things that allow the universe to travel through it much faster than C can travel on out network.
Not intending to insult any of you by over explaining, but here is a visual.
You have two different drag strips next to each other. In the left lane, Albert Einstein is driving a photon car on a drag strip made up of strings or whatever we currently think the universe is made of. In the right lane, you are driving a mini cooper on a drag strip made up of a diffrent kind of network of things. When the light turns green the photon car can't go any faster than the strip allows - which in his case is C. The mini cooper also can't go faster than his strip allows, but his strip allows him to go faster than C. Another thought - Special Relativity says we can't travel faster than C, maybe C is only C because it is limited on our network. If C was traveling on a different network, maybe it travels even faster.
Jeremy