186,000 mps is speed limit, right? Ok-hypothetical: Some being has legs,lets say, 50,000 light yrs long each. In one stride, which, to it is, happening in real time, has travelled 100,000 light yrs in a matter of seconds. Has this broken Einstein's limit?
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I don't know where you live, but our speed limit is 30MPH in the city and 60 on the freeway. and You are assuming that muscle movement equals the speed of light.
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This scenario can be simplified by assuming a straight, rigid rod many light-years in length which is then rotated so its far end is moving more rapidly than the speed of light. The fallacy is that nothing is perfectly rigid, and movement cannot be transmitted faster than the speed of light. The forces that cause movement are transmitted atom-to-atom down it's length, which is limited by the speed of light. Inevitably the rod will distort and curve according the the constraints of relativity.
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where do you buy size google shoes anyway???
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Before this happened, the foot on the end of the leg would have reached infinite mass, and the entire universe would have crashed into it. The speed of light is not an wall you run into, but more like a hill that gets steeper and steeper. As you approach it, lengths, times and masses all change. No leg could be moved in the way you say - it would require a more than infinite amount of energy.
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no. 186k mps still wasn't reached, at 100k mp "a matter of seconds", right (unless, of course, the movement was circular rather than straight). if this being has 50k light years long legs, approximately how big would one of its neurons be?
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This hypothetical being will take very slow strides. His legs won't break the speed of light (or even reach it). Anyway, a problem with such hypothetical questions are that they extend beyond normal rules of physics, since they are impossible.
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