CSvax:Pucc-H:ab3@pur-ee.UUCP (10/07/83)
ellis@flairvax disagreed with my comments vis-a-vis travelling down the NJ Turnpike at the speed of light...I said: > 2. If you are driving at C, then you have transgressed the {known, > well-understood, apparent -- pick one} laws of the universe and you will be > stopped by the next traffic cop, who will of course catch you by riding a > tachyon-constituted motorcycle. and he (quite correctly) pointed out > Now wait... going the speed of light is not in violation of any law of > physics I know! To my knowledge, your clock slows down as you approach the > speed of light, and completely stops should that speed ever be attained. and went on to say by by dumping mass ( say, by converting it to the energy used for acceleration ) one could achieve a zero-mass state, in which case C is indeed attainable; photons do it all the time! I agree; but I was *assuming* that the original submitter (srm@pyuxnn) was specifying a physical object (with non-zero mass) with a light-producing element on the front. That'll teach me to assume! Darth Wombat