Why nothing can go faster than the speed of light

Re:Why nothing can go faster than the speed of light by stephth on Monday February 21, 2011 @03:08AM (#2244715)

I went through your comments and you mentioned that "in a nutshell" the fact that there's no such thing as a full stop in space is why "this explanation is actually doing a disservice". But that's confusing to me because she clearly stated - relatively to motion - "Those things are true, but we're ignoring that kind of stuff right now."

Can you point out exactly where she crossed the line in your opinion?

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Re:Why nothing can go faster than the speed of light by burgerbrain on Monday February 21, 2011 @03:20AM (#2244734)

The confusion being expressed among commenters here is what I'm basing my assertion off of. Simplification is fine, but I think in this case it pretty clearly set a lot of people down the wrong track.

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Re:Why nothing can go faster than the speed of light by prawn on Monday February 21, 2011 @09:48PM (#2248461)

Some confusion is to be expected. After all, a lot of the concepts are pretty tough to comprehend cleanly.

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