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19 Mar 2015, 10:28 pm

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Its interesting that no one has posted one of my posts that was trollish. I simply ask a question, so time dilation causes the highest possible velocity to be 186,282 mps and everyone goes ballisitic.


No one is going ballistic but you yourself. Stop projecting yourself onto us.

You keep asking "why is the speed of light the speed of light?" so its up to you to demonstrate how that is not nonsensical trolling. Not for us to show that it is.

Anyway:

The answer is yes-for the second time i am telling you what you already know-the obvious- that time dilation dictates that that number has to be the upper speed limit of the universe.



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19 Mar 2015, 11:33 pm

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No need to get emotional. I am not trolling. So you are saying that time dilation causes the highest velocity to be the speed it is.


How am I "being emotional"?
I was just pointing out the obvious. That you are trolling. Now you are lying too!


Anyway- I will take the bait anyway-yes- obviously the effects of relativity stop you from going over a certain speed. Thats what I am saying.

Why at THAT speed at not at some other speed- in other words: "why is the top speed limit of the universe at the speed observed and not at some other speed?" is obviously a question that no one can answer at this point.

Post a quote from me that was trolling.
It seemed to me that you were saying that time dilation causes the ultimate velocity to be the speed it is. How is that trolling?


Asking "how is it trolling?" shows that you are either playing ignorant (out of malice), or that you really are extremely ignorant. I will just assume the later, and assume that you honestly, and innocently dont know enough to know why it tooks like you're trolling.



The answer to your question is "Yes. I am saying that the relativistic effects of approaching the speed of light are what stops you from reaching the speed of light". In other words "Yes. The top speed of the Universe IS the top speed of the Universe. Duh."

Next question.