Faster than the speed of light?
12-18-2014, 05:21 PM
#16
This inertial frame of reference, everything moving along the same relative to everything else, is what normal people call just plain normal reality. It was only when we started looking at really small stuff (atoms and subatomic particles) and really big faraway stuff (galaxies and quasars) that we started noticing good ol' Newtonian physics wasn't working so well any more.
So trust me when I say, no matter how fast you go, you'll just keep getting older. Unless along your travels you somehow contract Benjamin Button's disease. But that one comes with its own set of problems.
12-18-2014, 05:57 PM
#18
Relax. You don't want to be pushing c* anyway. Actual driving beats "lay in a course for that autocross Mr Sulu" any day.
*c, celeritus, the speed of light. As in Energy equals mass times the speed of light squared.
*c, celeritus, the speed of light. As in Energy equals mass times the speed of light squared.
12-18-2014, 06:47 PM
#19
Rennlist Member
What sort of mpg will we see at relativistic speeds anyway?
12-19-2014, 01:08 AM
#22
Oh, believe me, you do not even want to go there!
Here's why (no link- I tried googling, all I got was stuff so dense it made my eyes glaze over- and I already understand this stuff!):
The faster you go the greater your mass. The way it works nothing much happens even at speeds much greater than our fastest spacecraft have ever attained. At the speed of the Voyager spacecraft (38,610 mph) its mass is increased by about the equivalent of an atom of oxygen. Or nitrogen, if you're into the whole tire inflation thing. But somewhere around 0.1c (10% of the speed of light) it starts to become significant, and from there rises increasingly fast, becoming infinite at the speed of light.
So, even if by some divine act the EPA were abolished tomorrow leaving Porsche and everyone else free to pursue infinitely high power at infinitely low mpg, they still won't be able to find enough gas in the whole freaking cosmos to reach light speed.
Here's why (no link- I tried googling, all I got was stuff so dense it made my eyes glaze over- and I already understand this stuff!):
The faster you go the greater your mass. The way it works nothing much happens even at speeds much greater than our fastest spacecraft have ever attained. At the speed of the Voyager spacecraft (38,610 mph) its mass is increased by about the equivalent of an atom of oxygen. Or nitrogen, if you're into the whole tire inflation thing. But somewhere around 0.1c (10% of the speed of light) it starts to become significant, and from there rises increasingly fast, becoming infinite at the speed of light.
So, even if by some divine act the EPA were abolished tomorrow leaving Porsche and everyone else free to pursue infinitely high power at infinitely low mpg, they still won't be able to find enough gas in the whole freaking cosmos to reach light speed.
12-19-2014, 02:35 PM
#23
Rennlist Member
Oh, believe me, you do not even want to go there!
Here's why (no link- I tried googling, all I got was stuff so dense it made my eyes glaze over- and I already understand this stuff!):
The faster you go the greater your mass. The way it works nothing much happens even at speeds much greater than our fastest spacecraft have ever attained. At the speed of the Voyager spacecraft (38,610 mph) its mass is increased by about the equivalent of an atom of oxygen. Or nitrogen, if you're into the whole tire inflation thing. But somewhere around 0.1c (10% of the speed of light) it starts to become significant, and from there rises increasingly fast, becoming infinite at the speed of light.
So, even if by some divine act the EPA were abolished tomorrow leaving Porsche and everyone else free to pursue infinitely high power at infinitely low mpg, they still won't be able to find enough gas in the whole freaking cosmos to reach light speed.
Here's why (no link- I tried googling, all I got was stuff so dense it made my eyes glaze over- and I already understand this stuff!):
The faster you go the greater your mass. The way it works nothing much happens even at speeds much greater than our fastest spacecraft have ever attained. At the speed of the Voyager spacecraft (38,610 mph) its mass is increased by about the equivalent of an atom of oxygen. Or nitrogen, if you're into the whole tire inflation thing. But somewhere around 0.1c (10% of the speed of light) it starts to become significant, and from there rises increasingly fast, becoming infinite at the speed of light.
So, even if by some divine act the EPA were abolished tomorrow leaving Porsche and everyone else free to pursue infinitely high power at infinitely low mpg, they still won't be able to find enough gas in the whole freaking cosmos to reach light speed.
Will it have a manual or a PDK?
12-19-2014, 11:13 PM
#25