Re:Why can’t I go faster than the speed of light?
by jayd16 on Sunday September 12, 2021 @01:34PM
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What gets me about these classical ways of thinking about higher dimensions is collisions. Couldn't you bump into something going a different time rate and get deflected backwards if it was indeed analogous to classical movement?
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Re:Why can’t I go faster than the speed of light?
by yetihehe on Sunday September 12, 2021 @01:41PM
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Yeah, but if something goes at differrent time rate, it means it will have (typically very vastly) different space velocity. You can't have objects very near going at low space velocity and high time velocity, so this effect will not be noticeable.
Xkcd style explainer: When you have two things going at noticeably different time rates, you typically prepend "relativistic" [0] to all interactions. "Relativistic collision" sounds almost like "changes into huge amounts of plasma escaping from contact point".