Correct me if I’m wrong, but from my understanding, it’s only impossible for an object with mass to accelerate to the speed of light. If something was magically accelerated to above c, it wouldn’t break any rules to stay above c.

So what would happen in a collision between a slow object and something moving faster than c?

  • jj4211@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    19 days ago

    I’m not a physicist, but I have heard this before.

    I think it’s because people see that the lorenz factor has an asymptote, and so commonly math comes back after an asymptote.

    But the denominator is a square root, so there is nothing after the asymptote.

    Maybe also inspiring the TNG warp curve, where warp 5 was so much easier than say 4.99.

    Anyway, as far as I know there is no theory of anything FTL.