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homeylova223
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What is the reason for this?
Well, perhaps the easiest way to explain is that it turns out that equation is wrong. It works pretty well at low speed, but fails at high speed. Newton didn't have access to a particle accelerator, so he didn't know.I mean light goes 365,000 km/s according to observations.
Force is mass times acceleration
Therefore
acceleration is Force/mass
If a strong enough force is applied an object could accelerate faster than the speed of light.
It still won't be faster than the speed of light.All we have to do is to somehow convert a material object to light, then send the light to a destination. Problem solved. :) Then convert back to the material object.
Do you understand and believe that every observer, no matter how much they have accelerated in the past will still measure the speed of light to be that same fixed number? So let's say that you have an infinite amount of energy in your rocket and you turn it on for a certain period of time and change your speed by one-half the speed of light. When you make another measurement of the speed of light, it's the same as it was before. You can repeat this process as many times as you wish and you will be no closer to achieving the speed of light than you were before you started. Do you understand this? If this were not the case, then there would be some states of rest that are different than others making them preferred.
With low velocities, the formula for calculating the velocity, v, after an acceleration, a, for a time, t, is:But why would you go one half the speed of light If I want to go 100 percent the speed of light?
Most people can see the difference between 1/2 and 100 percent.
I mean light goes 365,000 km/s according to observations.
Force is mass times acceleration
Therefore
acceleration is Force/mass
If a strong enough force is applied an object could accelerate faster than the speed of light.