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While contemplating the speed of light...

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TwinTipWonder
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I finally put all the pieces of years of physics together and... i think i finally understand why nothing can travel faster that the speed of light.

It would mess up the space-time continium because things cannot exist in places that they havent been existed in yet. IE: Person shoots you with a gun. Bullet travels 2x Speed of light. You get hit with the bullet before you even see the bullet shooting you.

Crazy shit, dunno if anyone else was confused, cuz ive been for years and now im clarified.

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tricksterboardin
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wow your smart


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pierceme
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black holes were once really big stars(like really big) that became unstable and werent able to hold up to their own gravitational pull so they emploded and all that matter now being condensed into a tiny little area(like really tiny) created a huge pull on itself. U know how the pull on the earth is like 10m/s, well in a black hole the gravitational pull is greater than the speed of light. So since nothing can travel faster than the speed of light, once somethings in its event horizon(the point of no return) it cant get out, not even light. Thats why its a black hole, u cant see them cuz they give off no light.





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Snubluck
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F(of gravity=(Gm1m2)/R(squared)

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SteveStepp
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it is possible to travel faster than light in a non-gravitative area (like space)

thats why the sun can exert particles that travel 400,000 feet per second






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Skipig25
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I wouldn't think so. Even tho there is no gravity or friction, you would have to get one hell of a machine to get going that fast, but I think you would turn into energy. And even once you got started going, you could never stop. and you couldn't breathe, cause it's a vacuum

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