Why have we ruled out the possibility of finding something faster when we’ve only scratched the surface of space exploration and understanding?
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I understand why light and causality are the fastest things, but what determines their precise speed limits? Why is C set at the number it is as opposed to any other number as the maximum speed in the universe?
I understand why light and causality are the fastest things, but what determines their precise speed limits? Why is C set at the number it is as opposed to any other number as the maximum speed in the universe?
I thought that the nothing-faster-than-light rule was derived from Maxwell’s equations, not Einstein’s.
Light is electro-magnetic radiation that behaves as both a particle and a wave. The electrical charge of the light generates a magnetic field and then that magnetic field generates an electrical charge which then generates a magnetic field and so on. The light wave travels through space via this chicken and egg self propagation process.
It is the near instantaneous relationship between the charge and the magnetic field creating/collapsing each other that sets the ultimate speed limit on things traveling through space, as nothing with mass can happen faster than that.
I thought that the nothing-faster-than-light rule was derived from Maxwell’s equations, not Einstein’s.
Light is electro-magnetic radiation that behaves as both a particle and a wave. The electrical charge of the light generates a magnetic field and then that magnetic field generates an electrical charge which then generates a magnetic field and so on. The light wave travels through space via this chicken and egg self propagation process.
It is the near instantaneous relationship between the charge and the magnetic field creating/collapsing each other that sets the ultimate speed limit on things traveling through space, as nothing with mass can happen faster than that.
I thought that the nothing-faster-than-light rule was derived from Maxwell’s equations, not Einstein’s.
Light is electro-magnetic radiation that behaves as both a particle and a wave. The electrical charge of the light generates a magnetic field and then that magnetic field generates an electrical charge which then generates a magnetic field and so on. The light wave travels through space via this chicken and egg self propagation process.
It is the near instantaneous relationship between the charge and the magnetic field creating/collapsing each other that sets the ultimate speed limit on things traveling through space, as nothing with mass can happen faster than that.
I don’t think the answer is “Nothing can travel faster than light”, but rather “Whatever that can travel across space the fastest, happens to be light”. If something can travel faster than whatever that claims to travel the fastest, then it’ll create all sorts of problems and paradoxes.
We’re just supposing that nothing can go faster than the speed of light, because everything would make sense that way. We don’t “know” that this is true, but we’re just supposing that it is. And all we’re saying is, “Ehh, it seems to be true, because it makes sense”.
The speed of photons is the maximum rate of transfer of information. Photons can take longer to travel over one of two apparently equal distances but only because they are bouncing off a great many things along the way (high refractive index).
Information can travel over a distance apparently faster than the speed of light by quantum entanglement but photons still travel at the same maximum rate of transfer of information, it’s just that the apparent distance between the two entangled particles isn’t being travelled through (e.g.like a wormhole). That is the proven concept that the universe is not local.
The universe isn’t real either, but that’s a different matter: Objects and outcomes are influenced by observation.
I don’t think the answer is “Nothing can travel faster than light”, but rather “Whatever that can travel across space the fastest, happens to be light”. If something can travel faster than whatever that claims to travel the fastest, then it’ll create all sorts of problems and paradoxes.
We’re just supposing that nothing can go faster than the speed of light, because everything would make sense that way. We don’t “know” that this is true, but we’re just supposing that it is. And all we’re saying is, “Ehh, it seems to be true, because it makes sense”.
The speed of photons is the maximum rate of transfer of information. Photons can take longer to travel over one of two apparently equal distances but only because they are bouncing off a great many things along the way (high refractive index).
Information can travel over a distance apparently faster than the speed of light by quantum entanglement but photons still travel at the same maximum rate of transfer of information, it’s just that the apparent distance between the two entangled particles isn’t being travelled through (e.g.like a wormhole). That is the proven concept that the universe is not local.
The universe isn’t real either, but that’s a different matter: Objects and outcomes are influenced by observation.
The speed of photons is the maximum rate of transfer of information. Photons can take longer to travel over one of two apparently equal distances but only because they are bouncing off a great many things along the way (high refractive index).
Information can travel over a distance apparently faster than the speed of light by quantum entanglement but photons still travel at the same maximum rate of transfer of information, it’s just that the apparent distance between the two entangled particles isn’t being travelled through (e.g.like a wormhole). That is the proven concept that the universe is not local.
The universe isn’t real either, but that’s a different matter: Objects and outcomes are influenced by observation.
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