cool and easy to read article from space.com on some facinating discoveries related to matter that moves through the uni at speeds veddy veddy close to the speed of light. enjoy!! lots of great reference links as well to some of the points raised.

http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/blaz...eed_050118.html

The article states that some particles are accelerated to travel at 0.99....[19] light speed. How does this abuse of the fabric of spacetime happen without the particle giving up energy over time. Choosing a proton as our test particle, the Lorentz transformation of its mass is 1/(1-0.99[19]^2*c^2/c^2)^.5 or

one AMU /(.0[21]1^2)^.5 or one rest mass AMU * 10^21

or 1.7 *10^-27 * 10^21 or 1.7 * 10^-6 kilograms or 1.7 milligrams per relativistic proton.

Is there at least a hunch about how such a relativistic proton could travel for billions of years without losing mass? Does the Lense-Thirring effect (never mind the radius of curvature of the path)apply?

Note that all this stuff traveling around with increased mass could account for some of the dark matter mass.

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