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18-July-2008, 02:27 PM
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Who suggested that Light Speed shoud be an impassible limit?
I cant remember who suggested this..
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18-July-2008, 02:39 PM
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Maxwell along with Einstein, in a sense.
Really, it's a consequence of Einstein's Special Relativity theory.
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18-July-2008, 02:40 PM
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You mean historically, I presume. Medieval Arabs and Persians, like Avicenna, agreed that light had a finite speed. I think the first methodical thinker to say that was Roger Bacon.
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18-July-2008, 02:44 PM
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The question is: who decided light speed was a speed limit instead of a plain old fixed number.
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18-July-2008, 03:04 PM
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actually, i figured it out.
It was Henri Poincare 1904 International Congress of Arts and Science http://books.google.com/books?id=WtG...um=1&ct=result http://www.usatoday.com/tech/columni...er-light_x.htm http://math.ucr.edu/home/baez/physic...Light/FTL.html Quote:
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18-July-2008, 03:39 PM
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Hard to say Maxwell didn't suggest this with his theory on electromagnetism.
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20-July-2008, 03:25 PM
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 But he did say "perhaps" Poincare did not agree with special relativity, no matter how close he himself came to it. Quote:
Maxwell didn't suggest that the speed of light was a limit, with his theory on electromagnetism. That wasn't so hard.
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21-July-2008, 02:09 PM
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Being primarily a mathematician, perhaps he did not feel confident enough to challenge the long-established premises of classical physics.
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21-July-2008, 02:21 PM
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21-July-2008, 04:35 PM
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Eureka!
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