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Patrick C Mills (pam...@leahi.kcc.hawaii.edu) wrote:
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: Chris (coop...@cf.ac.uk) wrote:
: : > Eintiens Theory of Relativity. Exactly what it says; its relative to something. If you are in the car the headlights relative to you would 
: : still produce light at 3 x10^8 m/s Only the observer would percieve the 
: : light a short distance away from the car as both the car AND the light 
: : are very closely mathced in speed. All wierd, but them again according 
: : to Einstein at the speed of light your energy and mass become infinite 
: : and your length in space equals zero, therefore you occupy all pionts in 
: : space at the same time form the application of infinate speed = universe 
: : is destroyed! But that is all relative to the observer! not you!!
: : Confused yet???

: The keyword, kids, is *THEORY*...
: NEVER accept theories as the end-all truth...

But believe the evidence. 

: There used to be a theory that it was impossible to travel at/faster than
: the speed of sound....

No, there was NEVER any such theory, which would be regarded as nonsense 
by any 19th century scientist.  

After all, the measured speed of light was much faster than the measured
speed of sound {and these were easily known by then} and so were the orbital
speeds of planetary motion.  Firearms and artillery accelerated objects
to speeds faster than that of sound in their reference frame. 

There was once a feeling among *aeronautical engineers* that the dynamics of
transonic flight might be sufficiently difficult that the structural
and engine technology of the time might not be good enough to have 
economically feasible solutions.

And guess what?  For the most part it's still true; it is economically 
infeasible to build *commercial* supersonic aircraft.

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Matthew B. Kennel/mbk@caffeine.engr.utk.edu/I do not speak for ORNL, DOE or UT
Oak Ridge National Laboratory/University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN USA/ 
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