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Originally Posted by renormalised
That was me Geoff, in response to Martin's post directed at me in the general Forum.
All I said is that which physical law strictly forbade travelling faster than light. There isn't any. No reflection on his own knowledge, but on the accuracy of what was being broadcast by the show.
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The way you explained it here in those simple terms are a lot easier to understand and interpret.
In the other post you wrote:
"Which ones are they???. Even SR doesn't preclude objects travelling faster than light. That's the BIG misinterpretation of what Einstein said and a mistake that has been perpetrated and spread by most physicists since his time. What Einstein said, is that it is impossible for any material object to travel
through space
at the speed of light. The energy requirements rise asymptotically until they become infinite. However, there are solution to the equations in SR which allow for objects to always be travelling faster than light. However, these objects cannot
slow down to light speed because it takes infinite energy to slow them down to this speed. In order to travel faster, you reduce the amount of energy they have. At zero energy, they travel at infinite velocity (theoretically). "
If you read thru that, you have to read it well and slow before you see what you mean and look up what SR is on Google and find Special Relativity.
One note though, i have and will always "belief" that there is a faster than light (nothing here to back it up though).
So we have the same as you can say "thoughts" about the speed of light.
Also there are many immigrants on this forum who don't know every word spoken in English but the way you described it in the quote at the top looks easier to understand.
I have no problems if anyone in the science forum uses technical lingo, I am a electrician and work with people who don't understand a word i say but i explain it to them in an easier way, how hard it can be sometimes.
It should be the same in all the parts of the forums.
You can talk technical in the imaging forum but when someone who doesn't know, asks something, it has to be a simple answer or else She/He will be gone out the door very quick.
That's all folks
