Re: Lightspeed constant...

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From: jmax... Jon A. Maxwell
Date: Tue, 12 Nov 1996 00:00

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Scott Hess wrote:

] You _cannot_ go faster than the speed of light while remaining
] in our universe.  Almost by definition, if you are going faster
] than the speed light travels in our universe, then you are
] _not_ in our universe.

Scott, just curious if you have two bodies coming at each other
really fast, why will gravity not accelerate them to the speed of
light?  Is it because the faster they get the less mass they
have, so less gravity?  What if one or more of the bodies has
mass enough to be a black hole?

] The problem is that the amount of acceleration to add a given
] amount of velocity increases exponentially to infinity.

Doesn't gravity also increase in an exponential manner?

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From: jmax...@csugrad.cs.vt.edu (Jon A. Maxwell)
Subject: Re: Lightspeed constant...
Date: 1996/11/12
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