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Jon A. Maxwell wrote:
> 
> 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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Two bodies are both moving at 3/4 the speed of light towards each other.
Doesn't this mean that relative to one of the bodies, the other body is
travelling at 1.5 times the speed of light? If this is possible, doesn't
this apparently violate the so-called constant of C? If not, why not? 

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