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Re: is the speed of light the fastest speed possible?

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This made me laugh out loud.
"X is the quietest sound we can hear because we cannot hear anything quieter than x."
No, you differentiate between matter and lightspeed because mass is differentiated from speed of light in E=mc^2. You seem to identify both lightspeed and matter as x.

Ronthepon I do recommend that you visit my thread "Parallel Dimension and Ideal Future" in Philosophy and Humanities forums first. Some of your inquiries may have been adressed there.

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...In E=mc^2, Einstein was able to incorporate the conscious observer relative to his environment, within the units c^2.
No. E=mc^2 is the equivalence of matter and energy. It has nothing at all to do with consciousness or observers.
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Yet, with the Present dimension of E=mc^2,
No. this makes no sense at all. E=mc^2 is not a "dimension", has nothing to do with dimensions.
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the observer may be differentiated relative to his environment. There is the observer who is 'aware', and the observer who is 'unaware'.
No. To observe is to be aware, to see, to measure to have sensory evidence of an event. An "observer" who is not aware, cannot observe.

Rocket art, this and the remainder of your post, sounds very mystical, or very confused. I suspect you do not really understand E=mc^2 or Relativity or even Science as a method of understanding.

Your ideas suggest that you are very young. If this is true, give yourself a few years and keep reading and studying. Please let me give you a hint. Physics and mystical language do not mix very well. Trying to equate "energy" and "awareness" has been tried before, but it never seems to work. Good luck.


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...As you accelerate, you get heavier and as you get heavier it takes more energy to accelerate more...
I was given a good model for this once. Imagine you have a rifle with infinite accuracy. The bullets travel at some great speed, B. (compare to the speed of light). You wish to propel a payload away from you at the greatest speed possible, by bouncing bullets off it.

You shoot the payload (say, a soda can filled with electronics, whatever) ten times and the payload is now moving away at speed 1/2 B. From the can's viewpoint, the bullets are arriving slower and slower, and each one provides less propulsive momentum when it bounces off.

Another ten shots, and the can is going 3/4 B.
Another ten shots, and the can is going 7/8 B.
Etc. etc.

The velocity of recession of the can can be as close to B as you want, but you can never make it exceed B.

PS: This analogy has a few teensy flaws, but the imagery does aid understanding.


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That is a wonderful (although not perfect) aid to more easily visualize the issue Pyro... Thank you. It sounds very similar to the law of diminishing returns... Energy input loses effectiveness per unit measure as velocity approaches c... I'm sorry, as velocity approaches B.
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No. E=mc^2 is the equivalence of matter and energy. It has nothing at all to do with consciousness or observers.
And yet in our physical universe with the equation of E=mc^2 that we assign to it, it is very evident that we, as Conscious entities are a very integral part of it, and in fact contributory to the kind of reality that we are creating and experiencing today.

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No. this makes no sense at all. E=mc^2 is not a "dimension", has nothing to do with dimensions. No. To observe is to be aware, to see, to measure to have sensory evidence of an event. An "observer" who is not aware, cannot observe.
The units asssigned by E=mc^2 are based on the highest possible unit that one could possibly muster in this Universe, and that is the speed of light, therefore it has everything to do with the dimension of our physical Universe.

I have differentiated even further than what you stated. There is the difference between an observer who is 'aware' to a given situation, to an observer who is 'unaware' to a given situation. There is a BIG difference and the implications of it are very evident in our daily decisions in every moment we experience in this dimension. Surely you can differentiate between your stepping on a pool and being 'aware' that it is deep, to stepping on it but 'unaware' of it, and the resulting implication to your space-time reality.

Awareness definitely is far more profound than your initial perception of it. And yet Awareness, being knowledge is a pattern to be deciphered. Such pattern could be intricately probed deeper into the very first instance that we exhibit such 'awareness', while we are yet on the fetal, even mitosis stage of each one's existence.

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Rocket art, this and the remainder of your post, sounds very mystical, or very confused. I suspect you do not really understand E=mc^2 or Relativity or even Science as a method of understanding.

Your ideas suggest that you are very young. If this is true, give yourself a few years and keep reading and studying. Please let me give you a hint. Physics and mystical language do not mix very well. Trying to equate "energy" and "awareness" has been tried before, but it never seems to work. Good luck.
I am into art, and my role is to pluck from the intangible, abstract realms, a tangible idea, an image, in which I am doing right now, and such is not an easy task for me to translate the idea behind my painting into an equation, but I did upon noticing that Einstein's formula was elegant and capable enough to assign language for it. Science as a method of understanding is a very useful tool, and its proven usefulness is achieved because it answers the questions "how", yet dares not answer the question "why", which is appropriate.
As Conscious individuals, we need not define how we perceive issues solely based on tools alone, because the effort of digging the truth is not solely dependent on just the tool spade alone, but on the digger himself.

Consciousness is very evident as justly deserved, and does not have to be shelved just to mysticism, although such profoundness of it will always freely constitute to the mystery. To approach the Singularity and beyond the highest unit of lightspeed requires infinitesimal Energy and the blurring of time itself, and matter or any physical tool supposedly cannot exceed beyond it. It will be achieved with the power within that constitute the existence of Life itself and our being Aware. This is by our Conscious Energy alone.

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I would like to understand more about your undefined terms, Rocket Art, however, I can tell you do not understand your audience in this particular thread.

Explore concepts. Try new ideas. See if you can link them with existing knowledge. These are all good things.

However, right now you are presenting as fact something that is still an incomplete idea. Please bear that in mind, and recall to whom you are presenting and where you are doing it.

Might I suggest the Philosophy and Humanities Forum, where dialogues regarding consciousness might best be served.
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Ok Infinite, but I do invite you folks to visit my thread "Parallel Dimension and Ideal Future" over there (Philosophy and Humanities forums). I am presenting it for open minded scrutiny. I believe we do not have to remain at separating things and views if we are to seek solutions for humanity's Future.

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It's kina true by definition of the rules of the Universe the way I see it.

An example might help.

Imagine a rocket travelling at 0.95c relative to the Earth towards the Earth. That rocket fires a cannon. In the rest frame of the spaceship, the cannon can fire it's ball at another 0.95c. So how fast is it coming at the Earth? 0.95c + 0.95c = ......
about 0.99c or something. Velocities do not add linearly. Instead the most they can ever add to is speed c. Time and space shrinks instead. In this way, you can keep on accellatating 0.95c again and again, and you would be accellarating 0.95c relative to the frame you started the accellaration from, but no frame will observe you moving faster than c no matter how many times you accellarate.
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Interestingly, gravity can be described as a gradient in the value of c. You can't have any gravity without this gradient. Which means that whilst c looks like a universal constant, it's variable everywhere! Only we can never measure it because it affects everything we measure with.
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Einstein never "proved" that no objects can exceed the speed of light. Oddly enough, he assumed it as a given. Then he built his SR on top of that assumption.
Err, no. Einstien did not start by assuming that objects cannot exceed c. He started with two postulates:

1. The Laws of Physics are the same in all inertial frames
2. The speed of light in a vacuum(c) is invarient in all inertial frames.

From these he derived time dilation, length contraction and the relativity of simultaneity.

In turn, from these, he derived the relativistic expression for kinetic energy which showed that KE for a non-zero rest mass object approached infinity as the velocity of the object approached c.

The speed of light limit is a conclusion of Relativity, not an assumption.


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