Cosmic Speed Limit question.?

Einstein could be wrong. Any real scientist will admit that (although Dr Einstein was a bit stubborn in that regard - for some good reasons). But so far, most of the things that he said - especially about the speed of light and special relativity - have been repeatedly demonstrated to be right.

In fact, they are demonstrated daily in particle accelerators around the world and GPS satellites that would not be accurate if they did not take his work into account. So - until we find a better idea, his efforts describe our universe pretty darn well. The problem is not really that the speed of light is a limit.

The problem is that the speed of light is a constant. No matter how fast we go in any direction - away from a star - toward a star - 99% of c - whatever - the light from that star will still pass you at - the speed of light! It is not an issue of increased mass - that's more like a symptom than a cause.

In fact, you will not measure any mass increase, no matter how fast you are moving. The issue is that you can't catch the darn photons. No matter how fast you go, they will still pass you - relative to you - at 186,000 miles / second.

That's the problem, and as far as we can tell, that's how the universe works. Furthermore, it's a good thing it works that way. If it didn't we would really be doomed.

It would mean that physics would be completely different in one place than another, and even in one direction than another. We would probably have no way to define how things worked, because it would be different for everything we tried to do. We are already receding from some galaxies at near light speed.

Who's moving? Us or them? If the speed of light was not constant, there would be a difference, and it would affect us in all kinds of ways that are pretty tough to comprehend.

Theory doesn't mean 'guess'. It means something has been observed and tested and is the best explanation we have for a phenomena. It's not a matter of you just getting up to the speed of light and then you can't go any faster - time stops for you if you reach that speed.

It's not arbitrary, it's a property of our universe, and no amount of modern science has changed that. No one is trying to disprove it anymore (no scientists anyway, or at least mainstream ones) because it's a very obvious result of multiple experiments. Yes, Einstein has been wrong about things, and many other scientists who got something right once got something wrong.

But relativity is very solid science. Einstein didn't say anything about the world being doomed, and it looks like you're drawing ridiculous conclusions from a simple scientific statement. Based on what you're saying, it looks like you think reality has an expiration date, and after 100 years or so we have to start over.

That's not the case.

I cant really gove you an answer,but what I can give you is a way to a solution, that is you have to find the anglde that you relate to or peaks your interest. A good paper is one that people get drawn into because it reaches them ln some way.As for me WW11 to me, I think of the holocaust and the effect it had on the survivors, their families and those who stood by and did nothing until it was too late.