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Re: speed of light and time travel

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On 10/8/2023 3:22 PM, The Starmaker wrote:
> The Starmaker wrote:
>>
>> speed of light and time travel
>>
>> it appears to me that yous people
>> have no idea about
>> speed of light and time travel.
>>
>> I'll explain because it's so
>> simple.
>>
>> If you travel faster than the
>> speed of light, do you
>> go into the future or
>> do you travel back to the past?
>>
>> The answer is simple.
>>
>> You just keep going!
>>
>> There is no past
>> there is no future
>> there is only
>> Here and
>> Now.
>>
>> So, if you travel
>> faster than the speed of light...
>> you would still be here and now.
>>
>> (maybe over there)
>> (where?)
>> (right here, stupid!)
>>
>> (the only problem is
>> yous peoples have no idea what
>> Here and Now...'is'.)
> 
> 
> Now, let's take a closer look at what they say Albert Einsten said...
> 
> "Nothing travels faster than the speed of light."
> 
> 
> Does the word "speed" have anything to do with the word "faster?
> 
> 
> I mean, I looked up in the dictionary for the definition of the word "speed',
> and there is no mention of the word 'fast' or faster'..
> 
> 
> https://www.google.com/search?sca_esv=571764422&sxsrf=AM9HkKkIradciP7x2fMxtNZtewbFU2M7-g:1696795955248&q=speed&si=ALGXSlZC_jbid1uaZGfc4a798NDvk5U1_YNeCS-mKNS6K7yD1UtUH4DLOOUcJUoQxypcPGVtVEP-3uWnd1oMveIDPqGMdncp2Q%3D%3D&expnd=1&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwiqyazBoeeBAxVEcDwKHTStBIMQ2v4IegUIRBD1AQ&biw=1920&bih=1057&dpr=1&bshm=rime/1
> 
> https://www.google.com/search?hl=en&source=hp&biw=&bih=&q=define+speed
> 
> 
> So, what is the connection between the word "speed" and the word "faster"????
> 
> 
> In other words, what does speed have to do with fast or faster????
> 
> 
> Why is the word "faster" in the sentence?
> 
> "Nothing travels faster than the speed of light."
> 
> 
> 
> it smells like another con to me...
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 


By use of the word, "fast," he may have meant fasting, like what I do 
every other day, or other mortals do while asleep. Could be the whole 
relativity forum's ordeal originates from the way his words were first 
time translated into English.

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