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2280219 No.2280219 [Reply] [Original]

So what happens to an object if it reaches the speed of light?

>> No.2280223

We call it a photon

>> No.2280224
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2280224

Just watched episode 1 of Cosmos

Sagan makes me hard

>> No.2280227

>>2280223
So an object just becomes light?

>> No.2280231

Objects with mass cannot reach the speed of light

Ask an impossible question, get an ill-defined answer

>> No.2280238

it travels along the same "line" (actually an Einstein geodesic) until it reaches collapsar field, whereupon it reappears, repelled with the same speed at which it approached the original collapsar. travel time between the two collapsars being exactly zero. then you go and kill some Taurans.