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Originally Posted by Don Blazys View Post
To: Sniperjak.

Inertia is a property of mass (and energy, since the two are fundamentally equivalent).
Thus, in order to eliminate a bodys inertia,
one would have to convert all of the particles that make up that body
into massless particles such as photons.

Now, unconfined massless particles must move at the speed of light
in order to exist,
and for anything that moves at the speed of light,
time can not exist,
and anything that is not subject to the ravages of time
must be immortal... (not subject to death or even aging).

Thus, the answer to your question . . . is "The Godlike ability to be immortal."

Fun question!

Don.
So those "unconfined, massless particles" would be imbued with "special abilities?"

What kind of comic book hero would a photon be?

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