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Re: Can you provide an intuitive explanation for why nothing can travel faster than the speed of light?

From Fabian Russell <fb@zen.info>
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Subject Re: Can you provide an intuitive explanation for why nothing can travel faster than the speed of light?
Date 2016-02-26 23:42 +0000
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On Fri, 26 Feb 2016 23:10:08 +0000, jimp wrote:

> 
> There is nothing intuitive about it; to say otherwise is disingenuous.
>

Not true.  It is actually very intuitive.

The issue is equivalent to the following question:

Can there be a frame of reference in which light is stationary
to an observer?

Such a frame of reference would be intuitively inconceivable.  Nothing
can equal light velocity.

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