Einstein's Math May Be Compatible With Faster-Than-Light Travel

Posted by nitochi on Wednesday October 10, 2012 @11:59AM
from the huffingtonpost.com dept.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/10/10/einsteins-math-faster-than-light-travel_n_1951272.html

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Re:Einstein's Math May Be Compatible With Faster-Than-Light ... by stephengillie on Wednesday October 10, 2012 @12:09PM (#4636932)

as a spaceship traveling at super-light speeds accelerated faster and faster, it would lose more and more mass, until at infinite velocity, its mass became zero.

I remember the same theoretical considerations proposed when Tachyons were popular.

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Re:Einstein's Math May Be Compatible With Faster-Than-Light ... by tty2020 on Wednesday October 10, 2012 @12:15PM (#4636965)

Quantum theory is already nonlocal.

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