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spaceprt
If something could move faster than light, this ratio would not be a real number. Such a violation of causality has never been observed.
To put it another way, information propagates to and from a point from regions defined by a light cone. The interval AB in the diagram to the right is 'time-like' (that is, there is a frame of reference in which event A and event B occur at the same location in space, separated only by their occurring at different times, and if A precedes B in that frame then A precedes B in all frames: there is no frame of reference in which event A and event B occur simultaneously). Thus, it is hypothetically possible for matter (or information) to travel from A to B, so there can be a causal relationship (with A the 'cause' and B the 'effect').
Anonymous
Aliens move pretty fast, I think that the speed of light is just a human term because our feedble minds cannot accept moving faster than that. Not to get into the alien thing, but there is definately enough evidence to support them, and I don't think it would take them light-years to get where they are going, with the nearest galaxy being 2 million light years away, do you think they fly for 2 million years just to see us? Even to fly for 1 light year is stupid. So therefore I think that the speed of light is just the fastest thing we can come up with.
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The example of light traveling faster than the velocity of light on a distant shore is faulted. A photon making a "Turn" wouldn't make any difference, even if it was done by a reflector. It could not exceed the velocity of light. The far off beam of light could not drag the succeeding photons along as if the beam was a solid item.
As one guy, maybe Bohr said, "I may not be able to explain to you what I mean, but I know what I mean".
I may be wrong, but not far from it.
itsd2b
Arrows shot by super humans & mind. Also charriots of gods.