Welcome to the group Karl? Paul? Paulttr, Dr. or Mr. Hoiland?
. I knew I was not alone in my faster than light possibility theories I have found 100's of others who share the view since I first posted to usenet 5 years ago.
Many belivers are in this group and like all groups many in oposition are very vocal as if repeating "Though shall not exceed light speed" often enough and loud enough makes it a law.
I would like to address the question StarLab asked you regarding a photon's mass as I have a Einstein reference on hand of Einstein teaching light has mass
""Every since he published the book on relativity, to try to convince the world that light had weight" expanded on below.
Here is just a sample of my posts.
quote........: Dr. Paul Karl Hoiland
http://65.108.189.168/Docs/WAS%20DR%20NATA...RIO%20RIGHT.pdf
"When Einstein wrote down his postulates for special relativity he did not include the statement that you cannot travel faster than light. There is a misconception that it is possible to derive it as a consequence of the postulates he did give. Incidentally, it was Henri Poincare who said "Perhaps we must construct a new mechanics, ... in which the speed of light would become an impassable limit." That was in an address to the International Congress of Arts and Science in 1904 before Einstein announced special relativity in 1905." end quote...
quote......Refrence Item 16 - The infinite enegy arguement. http//:math.ucr.edu/home/baez/physics/Relativity/SpeedOfLight/FTL.html
http://math.ucr.edu/home/baez/physic...Light/FTL.html
"It is a consequence of relativity that the energy of a particle of rest mass
m moving with speed v is given by
E = mc^2/sqrt(1 - v2/c2)
As the speed approaches the speed of light the energy approaches infinity. Hence is should be impossible to accelerate an object with rest mass to the speed of light and particles with zero rest mass must always go at exactly the speed of light otherwise they would have no energy. This is sometimes called the "light speed barrier" but it is very different from the "sound speed barrier". As an aircraft approaches the speed of sound it starts to feel pressure waves which indicate that it is getting close. With some more thrust it can pass through. As the light speed barrier is approached (in a perfect vacuum) there is no such effect according to relativity. Moving at 0.99999c is just like standing still with everything rushing past you at -0.99999c. Particles are routinely pushed to these speeds in accelerators so
the theory is well established. Trying to get to the speed of light in this way is like trying to get to the pot of gold at the end of a rainbow. This explains why it is not possible to exceed the speed of light by ordinary mechanical means.
End quote[/quote]
Note 1 :
Einstein explained the above given equation as a limit on particle accelerator to accelerate the particle to only sub C as proven mathematically and by particle accelerator experiments. He then said "because" a particle accelerator has to provide the energy to accelerate the particle from a rest frame base to a relativistically increasing mass towards infinity so the energy required tended towards infinity. "In relativity calculation do not mix frames of reference. "It did not rule out a different machine being found that provides the energy from a different frame reference so would require the energy calculation being redone with the proper frame of reference" "Experiments can be poorly designed so as not to prove what they are intended to such as particle accelerator experiments and the Michale-Morleson experiment" -Einstein (1955)
I can fairly assume that Einstein was the leading authority on relativity till 1955, and not Gibbs or others before and after who interpreted his equations some other way to mean a machine cannot be found to exceed C. There is zero evidence such a velocity of light speed limit mechanics was ever constructed and Einstein denied in 1955 that he ever constructed such mechanics as he taught that a massive object could be accelerated beyond light speed. He than explained "How" it could be done.
He then explained the wide spread public misconception tying his relativity theories to a C speed limit to a "German to English" translator he hired to translate his relativity papers to English.
The Translator knowing basically as a second language German and some basic physics and less relativity physics and some of Henry Poincare's workwas looking for a C speed limit mechanics so Jumped to the conclusion he had found it translating some of the equations adding his own interpretation comments to appear falsely as from Einstein to say:
"It appears we cannot accelerate an object beyond light speed" in the English translation. By the time Einstein came to America and had learned enough English to correct the mistranslations he found the misinformation so widespread that correction was found impractical so then he confined his teaching of the possibility of acceleration beyond light speed to his personal students at Princeton and private students and from that time on authorized only those works signed by
him to be published. The one signed in 1955, I read in 1963.
So my list of math or experimental proofs of any C limit for massive objects velocity contains no data.
[b]Universal speed limit at C Proof list
.............................................
(Empty-Null Set)
.............................................
like the possibility of Einstein's faster than light theory, popular science often contridicts Einstien' statements as it is populary taught Einstein did "not" complete his gravitaional unified field theory .
foia.fbi.gov/
click on electronic reading room, famous persons, Einstein, Albert, Part 9b
foia.fbi.gov/einstein/einstein9b.pdf
page 18 and 19
Washing Star Dec 27,1949
Einstein presents New Theory of all motion in Universe
"The unified field theory" It was reveled here yesterday on 20 mimeographed pages-a mixture of typewritten words and squiggly mathematical symbols that even scientists hesitated to interpret. It was the English translation of Doctor Einstein's original German........
................
......In earlier theories Dr. Einstein linked up space and time, matter and energy and gravitation and inertia, but one great force was left out-electromagnetism, an invisible force field that can act at a distance.
The new theory now includes electromagnetism and it and gravitation are viewed as two forms of one overall force.
In his general theory of 1915 Dr. Einstein showed by mathematics that gravitation and inertial were equivalent. This theory was proved when astronomers were able to detect the suns gravity bending light from a distant star.
end quote---------------------------
Einstein destroyed the infinite energy and mass argument against faster than light by teaching light had mass.
quote ......
http://foia.fbi.gov/]http://foia.fbi.gov/
click el;ectronic reading room, famous persons, Einstein, Albert to find
http://foia.fbi.gov/einstein.htm]http://foia.fbi.gov/einstein.htm
link Einstein, Albert; part 1a gives page 88
Rankin Denies Einstein A-Role
By United Press
Reb. Rankin (D) of Mississippi said yesterday that professor Albert Einstein "had nothing to do" with the atomic bomb and "should have been deported for his Communistic activities years ago" He denounced as "bunk" Einstein, proposal for a world government to prevent an atomic war that might wipe out mankind. Scientists declared Einstein, A naturalized citizen of German birth, had "just about everything to do" with making possible the US development of the atomic bomb.........
....................Rankin concludes with "Every since he published the book on relativity, to try to convince the world that light had weight, he has capitalized upon his alleged reputation as a scientist." Rankin went on. "He had no more to do with the development of the atom bomb than if their hadn't been such a thing Rankin. American scientists developed the atomic bomb and old faker Einstein had nothing to do with it."
regarding relatvistic mass
quote Einstein's point of view is described in the following quote...
http://hyperphysics.phy-astr.gsu.edu/hbase/hframe.html
"It is not good to introduce the concept of the mass of a moving body
for which no clear definition can be given. It is better to introduce no other mass concept than the 'rest mass' m. Instead of introducing M it is better to mention the expression for the momentum and energy of a body in motion."
end quote