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Originally Posted by sjastro
The building of progressively more powerful particle accelerators such as the Large Hadron Collider is more than ample proof of the futility of accelerating particles to the speed of light. It's no coincidence that protons will be accelerated to "only" 99.99% the speed of light using enormous amount of potential energy.
Since m and E are related (E=mc2) most of the increase in mass of a particle approaching the speed of light is in fact taken up by the KE of the particle. If it was possible for the particle to reach the speed the light, the KE would become infinite. The mass won't turn into gravitational sink.
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Steven
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That's true....doesn't matter what they do, they just don't have enough energy to accelerate them to lightspeed. It takes infinite energy.... and there it is again. An infinity....it can't be avoided. That's why SR becomes nonsensical. There wouldn't be enough energy in all the dimensions and parallel universes to accelerate a particle to lightspeed.
About mass and KE.....it could either go two ways. One, the KE becomes infinite, which can't happen....or two, since M and E are equivalent, the mass becomes infinite and you get an infinitely heavy singularity. Either way, the gravity must become infinite. If that particle were to stop (by hitting something, say), the energy has to go somewhere. Since it's infinite, it doesn't matter whether it's transfered to the body it hits or to itself, it becomes mass....an infinite mass derived now from PE. Wam.....instant infinitely heavy black hole. Goodbye universe
