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    1. 07-25-2011 08:36 PM #1
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      Quote Originally Posted by PhilosopherStoned View Post
      Everything is not relative. The spacetime interval measured between two events is not relative. The speed of light is not relative. Further examples abound. Also, YOUR FACE is not a thought provoking idea.
      The spacetime interval measured between two events is not relative... in three dimensions. After that, they are. The speed of light IS relative if you are traveling at the speed of light. At the speed of light you are motionless. YOUR FACE abounds.
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      Quote Originally Posted by sloth View Post
      The spacetime interval measured between two events is not relative... in three dimensions. After that, they are. The speed of light IS relative if you are traveling at the speed of light. At the speed of light you are motionless. YOUR FACE abounds.
      Nothing can travel faster than the speed of light because mass increases with velocity. A vehicle attempting to travel faster than the speed of light would require an infinite amount of energy to accelerate its increasing mass (as far as we know an infinite amount of energy does not exist).
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      Quote Originally Posted by stormcrow View Post
      Nothing can travel faster than the speed of light because mass increases with velocity. A vehicle attempting to travel faster than the speed of light would require an infinite amount of energy to accelerate its increasing mass (as far as we know an infinite amount of energy does not exist).
      I wasn't talking about traveling faster than the speed of light.
      I was stating that the speed of light is relative. If I was moving at the speed of light, another object that was also traveling at the speed of light, in the same direction, would be motionless to me.
      I was also stating that PHILOSOPHER'S FACE!

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      Quote Originally Posted by PhilosopherStoned View Post
      Also, YOUR FACE is not a thought provoking idea.
      YOUR FACE was not the thought provoking idea I was referring to. I was just ending my post on a meaningful note.
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