How can Mass travel faster than c?
yet another intuitive hypothesis
by Joseph_Sixpack
TOC
Index
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...
TOP
TOC
Index