Philosophy Wire by Spiros Kakos [2013-04-24]:
What is the Relativity Theory? What does it really say?
The major misconceptions are related to the speed of light as a universal speed limit. A limit which... limits us in almost everything - from interspace journeys to information transmission and time travels (yes, Gödel proved they are possible).
But how is that limit derived? And can it be overcome?
Speaking in favor of FTL (Faster than Light) speeds can easily ban you from scientific communities
However...
That "limit" was initially derived from an experiment. And there are other experiments casting a doubt on that experiment... [see experiments of Dayton Miller
here]
That "limit" is set to be true due to the fact that c is calculated from Maxwell's equations. But why not believe the "Many Minds Relativity" according to which each observer assumes that light propagates according to Maxwell's equations in a coordinate system, or a vacuum, fixed to the observer? Different observers moving with respect to each other, thus use different coordinate systems or different vacui, but they all use the same Maxwell's equations. [
source] No problem with such an explanation. And surely no "limit" there...
That "limit" is not universal. It is actually broken in more than one occasions. And it is simply "not relevant" to many other cases of faster than light information transfer. See the below sources:
That "limit" is experimentally verified like a self-fulfilling prophecy.
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We use Relativity Theory equations (which were built ON THE BASIS of light speed being the ultimate barrier) to calculate the speed of e.g. space particles and we find it to always be less than c. But this happens because these equations do not allow anything to get a speed beyond c simply because THEY ARE CONTRUCTED SO THAT THIS HAPPENS! [
source]
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Alternative Physics suggests...
Replace: "The speed of light is a constant for all observers" with:
The speed of light is a constant relative to its source.
Replace: "No object can exceed the speed of light" with:
No object can exceed the speed of light relative to its launch point.
What is the speed of a thought? Think quickly. And as Bruce Lee said... "Have no limit as limit".
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Philosophy Wire by Spiros Kakos [2013-04-24]: ![FastL-eqn4_thumb[2]](http://lh6.ggpht.com/-IugoHncktN8/UXexSyfTk7I/AAAAAAAAL34/PqPvSg-z2wo/s1600-h/FastL-eqn4_thumb%25255B2%25255D%25255B6%25255D.gif "FastL-eqn4_thumb[2]")
Philosophy Wire by Spiros Kakos [2013-01-05]: What is normal to most people in winter has so far been impossible in physics: a minus temperature. On the Celsius scale minus temperatures are only surprising in summer. On the absolute temperature scale, which is used by physicists and is also called the Kelvin scale, it is not possible to go below zero. Physicists at the Ludwig-Maximilians University Munich and the Max Planck Institute of Quantum Optics in Garching have now created an atomic gas in the laboratory that nonetheless has negative Kelvin values ("Negative Absolute Temperature for Motional Degrees of Freedom"). These negative absolute temperatures have several apparently absurd consequences: although the atoms in the gas attract each other and give rise to a negative pressure, the gas does not collapse – a behaviour that is also postulated for dark energy in cosmology. What is more, atoms in this “negative temperature” are more hot than any set of atoms in infinite positive temperatures! Ans this does end here: supposedly impossible heat engines such as a combustion engine with a thermodynamic efficiency of over 100% can also be realised with the help of negative absolute temperatures. [source: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5]
