[TheForge] YAK relativity- WAY OT, or not...

[Lynn Emrich]

--- Mike Linn <bamablacksmith@comcast.net> wrote:
> Here is the way I understand it...
> 
> As a body increases in velocity its mass increases,
> time slows down and thus
> it takes more energy to increase speed even more. As
> the body approaches c
> the mass approaches infinity and thus the energy
> required to accelerate
> approaches infinity also.. therefore it would take
> infinite energy to
> accelerate a body to faster than the local c.
> 
> One thing not mentioned here is that light is not a
> wave nor a particle..
> its both..
<big snip>

Sometimes called a "wavecle" (however it's spelled) as
suggested by a teen age girl many years ago.

Enjoying the thread and quotes from Asmov, Lynn


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