How can Mass travel faster than c?

yet another intuitive hypothesis

by Joseph_Sixpack

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Abstract:  Joe offers yet another intuitive hypothesis that 
Mass might be able to travel faster than the speed of light.

It was announced recently on yahoo news that astronomers 
have discovered a neutron star that is spinning at 1,100 
revolutions per second.  I promptly forwarded the published 
notice to all my cronies who met the news with a big yawn.

Upon a visit to my favorite coffee shop, an announcement by 
me of this new 'theoretical fact' was met with a disdainful 
discussion of why Mass can't go faster than c by my good 
doctors in mathematics.  These guys don't give me an ounce 
of slack in my intuitive joseph_sixpack voyages.

Okay, so my argument goes like this: (c miles/second) divided by (1,100 rotations/second ----------------------------------------------------- divided by Pi Equals: the 'mass can't travel faster then c' maximum effective diameter of the neutron star (or the emitting system) if the outside diameter of the emitting system approaches c.
Restated: Divide c, 186,000 miles/second by 1,100 rotations/second. That gives us the miles traveled per rotation of the neutron star, or whatever it is that is spinning. Now if we divide that by Pi we get the maximum diameter of what ever it is that spinning can be so as to not exceed c.
Restated again: c ÷ rps ÷ pi = Dmax
Okay, that cranks out i think to about 53.823~ miles in diameter if the turkey is perfectly spherical, which it isn't of course due to the ungodly centrifugal forces. Now if they establish that the neutron star diameter is larger than the c lightspeed threshold diameter, what then? In any event, consider the centrifugal forces involved: 1,100 rotations per second is 66,000 rpm! Now if the system is a binary or closing or opening binary we can cut that in two for an only 33,000 rpm. Unimaginable Centrifugal force? you betcha! At least two questions immediately suggest themselves: a) What is the.. er... can there be a surface velocity of the spinning neutron star that exceeds c? b) If so, what happens to the surface/space contact area between the neutron mass and the spacetime warpage and radiation around it. c) Do things change if the emitter is a 'black or near black hole? Because of the centrifugal force, it would seem not too out of line to assume that we are dealing with a very dense M&M shaped object of unknown size. In fact, it may even go to an LP disk shaped object and as the centrifugal forces keep increasing at the perimeter, it may actually throw itself apart in a gigantic neutron blast with a resultant orbit slowing due to the now less mass if it is a neutron star, or a photon show if it has a pile of radiation captured internally. Sort of a mini concept of the spiral galaxic process as discussed in the universe+ chapter. Does anyone want to buy a two second gamma ray burst? Assume that we discover a 2,200 or higher rps system out there. Okay, now we are up to 132,000 rpm and if the same diameter, a surface speed at space contact much faster than the velocity of light. This begs the question: just how small in diameter can a neutron star be? how dense? Are we still in the land of reality here or in the land of make believe physics? Does the conservation of angular momentum suddenly stop when the surface periphery approaches c? hardly... So what's joe's personal intuitive uneducated opinion? He thinks that although radiation may be limited to a transfer velocity of c in his grumpalump cheerios ether theory, mass or dense mass is not limited to c. GR may be just an artificial fix to a somewhat subjective analysis of relative speeds. Or, in the alternative, it may be very correct. joe don't know. he dumb.
A Theological note But he think the Father of Lies into whose hands the earth was given, don't stop lying. Determining the truth within a fixed system of lies isn't easy. you gotta do it by yourself with no help and a lotta prayer. Sometimes all you get the evil central answering the phone with a quite disinterested God. God is only interested in Souls, not scholastic bullshit. God is not glorified by deceit However the alternate institution may not object to deceit to achieve its purposes, which is the destruction of your (ours) soul. To make matters even worse, i get this terrible feeling that absolutely nobody is interested in our great numbers of unborn children that will populate the future of a leftover earth for all future generations. The i am who am (lower case deliberate) and not the real "I AM WHO AM" apparently has settled upon an indifferent 'let the future eat cake' attitude. Black holes with their generated rubber sheet gravity appear to indeed rule... Things may be a lot worse than Mad Max and Waterworld could begin to imagine. i think it is time for a new movie with just the remaining insects in it. The movie would be set within a background of abandoned cities, and cathedrals, and flags, and statues, of our Dame Liberty, and others erected to celebrate blind conspicous consumption. Lady Blind Justice and her scales of course, are in a half buried, erotic, and compromised adult rated position. ...and probably with her nose shot off just like the four footed humanity that hadn't climbed down from the trees yet who desecrated the great testimonials of thought within Egypt and Afghanistan and no doubt many other places. Goodfellows indeed... sigh... Humanity... who can believe it...
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