I’m going to say something controversial…

@UndeadSona wdym?

@UndeadSona like a photon? not an object and it travels light speed?

@Zaphod42 Literally just did 😎

@Zaphod42 neutrinos have mass and don’t travel at the speed of light. They come very close, but are still below it.

@SomeMichGuy I think if more people understood even basic stuff like this things would be better. Just for the thinking skills.

@PalteseMalconFunch YES.

I encourage ppl ALL the time to just go ahead and look at...ANYthing which others have thought, because almost EVERYone can understand ANY thought which ANYone else has thought...given enough time (because you might have a very different background, are new to an area of thought, etc.).

Introductory material about special relativity fits nicely into this category.

The 1905 paper WAS published almost 120 yrs ago--we've had a LOT of thinking and discussion about it since then. In fact, it's likely to have been one of the MOST discussed, dissected, considered parts of physics in that 119 years.

So we KNOW how to talk about it, think about it, etc. It's a lot easier now than it was when Einstein wrote about the electrodynamics of moving bodies way back then.

@SomeMichGuy Yea absolutely. Relativity is one of if not the most corroborated scientific theories in history. It would be good for everyone if we learned not just that fact but all of the “why’s” involved.

@tenente Oh yea we should all share that particle accelerators are dope.

@PalteseMalconFunch ( uses LHC to try accelerating an object to lightspeed )
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@tenente And the outcome is about as much energy as a mosquito flapping its wings.

We should do way way more of that