Vectors and the Speed of Light?

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Can the speed of light be broken using vectors? Why not? Where does the Lorentz Transformation come into play?

E.g. I accelerate to 3/4 the speed of light North and then to 3/4 the speed of light East. Am I traveling faster than the speed of light at 45 degrees North-East?
 
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ryuunoseika said:
Can the speed of light be broken using vectors?

No.

The usual relativistic "velocity addition" formula applies only when the velocities are along the same line.

For adding velocities that are at an angle with each other, see for example the section The velocity addition formula for non-parallel velocities on this page.
 
Can the speed of light be broken using vectors? Why not?

the speed of light is fixed for all obsevers. for all frames of reference.
 
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