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Old 09-23-11, 02:16 PM   #23
Diopos
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Originally Posted by Skybird View Post
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An object, in this theory, that accelerates to lightspeed, gains mass, until at lightspeed it would have gained infinite mass. Which would bring our whole cosmologic model of the universe to a collapse.
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When "toying" around relativistic speeds, it is better to perceive mass as a measure of inetria rather than the amount of substance. Infinite mass means infinite inertia which means that the body offers infinite resistance to the change of its state of motion.

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