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2/6/2013 10:50:08 PM
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Moving faster than light question

I know it's impossible to move faster than light, this is merely hypothetical. When you move faster than light, you have infinite mass. Now, surely if that thing with infinite mass crashed into anything, wouldn't an infinite force would be produced (F=MA) ? And wouldn't that force kinda fu­ck shit up?

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  • Edited by annoyinginge: 2/8/2013 10:41:23 PM
    The equations of Newtonian physics are not entirely accurate. They're approximations. In everyday scenarios, the differences between the answers they give and the "actual" answers are negligible, so we take them as correct. But for an extreme scenario - an extremely high-gravity environment, or a sub-atomic scale, or for an object moving at an appreciable fraction of the speed of light - the difference between the Newtonian approximation and the truth is so massive the equations are entirely useless. So in your hypothetical situation, [i]F = ma[/i] goes out the window. In fact, seeing as you're talking about above-light speeds, I doubt the equations of special relativity or even M-theory would apply. So we really have no way of knowing what would happen. I also don't think you can claim with any certainty that an above-[i]c[/i] particle would have an infinite mass.

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