We can travel faster than light. Like that limitation is just “Einstein was wrong”.

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[–]iDontShift 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

it also means tesla was right.

einstein used his bullshit theory of relativity to deny tesla's reality of ether being what is

in essense, because of einstein .. many people stop studying tesla

aka fuck einstein he is a gatekeeper

[–]Alienhunter 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

Einstein was right, but it's really hard to wrap your head around. Once you do it makes a lot of sense.

There's still in aether, but the aether is space itself, which is synonymous with time. Or rather, the rate at which time progresses, which is simply the rate at which light propagates.

As such the "speed" of light is a bit of a misnomer, we can measure light traveling at a constant speed but it's very easy to travel faster than that, you just need to keep "hitting the accelerator" as it were, and you'll go faster and faster forever. You can fly to the nearest galaxies, or the farthest galaxies, in an instant if you can go fast enough, but the thing is, you'll still see light traveling past you at the same speed it always has, because light speed is always going to be measured at about 300,000 meters per second locally, because that's just the rate at which time works. You can't go faster than time. The very idea that you experience time at different rates is meaningless because 1 second measured for you is always going to be 1 second for you no matter what. You can't imagine measuring time faster or slower for yourself, it only affects the rate at which you perceive other things happening but you still experience one second per second, which is the speed of time which is the speed of light.

Light travels from one point of the universe to the other instantly. From it's point of view. Because light is indeed traveling at the maximum speed, which is infinity, you see the light coming from distant objects to you at "instantaneous speed" or rather think of it like this.

There's a pitcher on the moon that can throw a baseball past the earth at the speed of light. You are watching him with a magic telescope. The instant you see him throw the ball it instantly appears at you, you don't perceive it's journey, all the information of his wind up and the balls journey towards you arrives at exactly the same time, which is now. Light always arrives at your now. Always. Once it passes you, you'd see the ball slow to exactly 1/2 the speed of light as it moves away. Since it takes twice as long as the information to reach you. You could attempt to fly after it of course. But since it appears exactly at 1/2 the distance from you than it actually is, no matter how fast you accelerate it's always going to just be a bit ahead. You can never reach it.

It's all very intuitive once you understand infinities and why light and time are inexorably linked.

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As such the "speed" of light is a bit of a misnomer, we can measure light traveling at a constant speed but it's very easy to travel faster than that, you just need to keep "hitting the accelerator" as it were, and you'll go faster and faster forever.

No, thats not right, relativity sets strict limits on velocity, not possible if you accept Einstein. Thats why the theoretical warp drive warps the space in front of it, shrinking the space in front of the craft as it travels, reducing the distance traveled, rather than breaking the speed limit, similar to the idea of a wormhole.

[–]Alienhunter 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Yes you refer to the Alcubierre drive. The problem with that is while the math and geometries check out there's no practical theory on creating one.

I'm talking about the consequences of relatively. It's not quite as simple as saying there's a strict limit on velocity. As time and space are inexorably linked.

Not only can we observe objects traveling faster than the speed of light. As we see with the jets from pulsars pointed at us, but this in no way breaks relativity despite people being confused when they initially learn about this.

In addition you can indeed keep accelerating forever if you've got enough fuel. People see the speed of light as this hard "speed limit" you'll hit and be unable to surpass. But in reality the speed of light is always going to be C relative to you. That means that, if you accelerate to say 50% the speed of light. You won't measure the speed of light as 150,000,000 m per second. You'll still measure it as 300,000,000 m per second relative to you. And no matter how fast you accelerate you'll continue to measure it as C in your reference frame. You can by consequence continue to accelerate forever. You'll never hit the speed of light because it's always going to be 300,000,000 meters per second faster than you. You will be a consequence of time dilation and spacial contraction travel distances you initially considered to be substantial in increasingly short periods of time, and distance, towards infinity. There is no "strict limit on velocity" in this manner, that only applies locally.

If you consider a spaceship that accelerates away from earth at a constant acceleration of 1g towards the Andromeda Galaxy. The people on that spaceship will arrive in the Andromeda Galaxy, a distance of 2 and a half million light years. In about a decade or so. The observers from earth will see the ship accelerate to but not quite reach half the speed of light, and arrive in Andromeda about 5 million years in the future from their pov.

But should a ship from the Andromeda Galaxy leave at 1g acceleration towards the earth, we would see the journey taking approximately 10 years. And we would measure the speed of it as a huge multiple of light speed. And this wouldn't break relativity at all, as the information from the ship, the light emitted from it, is arriving to us long after the ship has "left" the result is of course we see the ship and measure a velocity that exceeds C.

It's quite simple that from any reference frame the maximum apparent speed of any approaching object is infinity because light appears to us to instantly appear from its source. The maximum apparent speed of any object moving away from us is half the speed of light because for an object traveling away from us at C it takes the light from that object an equal amount of time to get back as it took to get there in the first place.