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Old 19-December-2008, 11:16 PM
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Originally Posted by xfahctor View Post
My $0.02
Can one even travel faster than light? light may be the one thing known to reach the absolute observable limit of speed while at the same time being the defining factor in the absolute limit on observed speed. In traveling faster than light, would you in fact arrive before you actually arrive, as someone at your point of arrival or point of departure would observe, or rather not be able to observe?
A point i made earlier is, once you've reached the speed of light in your reference frame, time and space would be zero. The instant you reached C your journey would be over regardless how far your destination was. Once you reach C there is no space to travel in.