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Originally posted by robwerden
I was just thinking about the rule that says something like, "as matter approaches the speed of light it becomes infinitely heavy."
So if a particle beam is pushing particles near the speed of light, then the particles, which have mass, should become infinitely heavier.
When something is infinitely heavy, does that mean the mass goes up but the amount of space it occupies does not? And if this is so, then what amount of mass would a particle get to?
Infinite mass to me means more than can be measured. If it is that massive, it should create gravity, which should distort space time. If the particle distorts space time, then it should basically go into warp like on star trek.
So, when a particle beam sends a particle, does the particle arrive where the beam arrives, or does it vanish because it was either warped away or possibly destroyed.
I guess what im getting at is, if a particle beam can distort space, would that be the method to create warp drive?
Originally posted by robwerden
I was just thinking about the rule that says something like, "as matter approaches the speed of light it becomes infinitely heavy."
So if a particle beam is pushing particles near the speed of light, then the particles, which have mass, should become infinitely heavier.
When something is infinitely heavy, does that mean the mass goes up but the amount of space it occupies does not? And if this is so, then what amount of mass would a particle get to?
Infinite mass to me means more than can be measured. If it is that massive, it should create gravity, which should distort space time. If the particle distorts space time, then it should basically go into warp like on star trek.
So, when a particle beam sends a particle, does the particle arrive where the beam arrives, or does it vanish because it was either warped away or possibly destroyed.
I guess what im getting at is, if a particle beam can distort space, would that be the method to create warp drive?