Re: breaking the speed of light article on howstuffworks.com

From: Robert Baer (robertbaer_at_earthlink.net)
Date: 02/06/05 

Date: Sun, 06 Feb 2005 10:46:48 GMT

~~SciGirl~~ wrote:
>
> If there was some way to achieve a negative volume (it seems SO
> impossible but who knows?) what would happen to the matter? Say we had
> a piece of metal, and accelerated it past C. From another frame of
> reference, you'd see it getting shorter as it approached C. If it went
> faster than C, would it eventually become something with mass but no
> volume, and then start regaining its volume in the opposite direction?
> (ugh I don't think I'm explaining myself very well, I need a picture of
> some sort.) It's kind of this idea, and absolute value comes in
> somewhere, but I can't really express it well. Say speed was a number
> line, and C was zero. We so far can only move on one side of C. What
> would be on the other side, if it exists? Which side are we on? Or is
> this way of thinking about it totally one hundred percent impossible
> and wrong?

  Start simple; push a bullet, a rocket, a photon.
  *Special* theory of relativity predicts that one must use more end
more energy to make that move faster, as it approaches the speed of
light.
  *DISCONNECT*
  Be G*D and know of two galaxies on "opposite" sides of the expanding
universe.
  Us dirtbags (err..Earthlings) have learned that galaxies move faster
the further away they are (from us and presumably from the center of the
universe AKA "big bang").
  So, those two chosen galaxies could easily be moving away from each
other at (say) 10*C.
  The how of that did not violate *special* theory at any time during
their life, and certainly can never do so.
  *GENERAL* theory comes into play, and basically states that there can
be absolutely *NO* communication between them.
  So a dirtbag on one would (and could) never know that the other galaxy
existed, or where (unless G*D gave that information to her/him).