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How does that allow you to go FTL?It reduces your mass.
How does that allow you to go FTL?
You have a drive that works by reducing your mass, and this is your question? :lol:
for now, I guess I'll tell myself that it gives you negative mass to go FTL.
...for now, I guess I'll tell myself that it gives you negative mass to go FTL. No idea what negative mass is, if it's significant, if it exists, or if it would let you go faster than the speed of light(that would probably warrant a new thread).
I guess I'll tell myself that it gives you negative mass to go FTL. No idea what negative mass is, if it's significant, if it exists, or if it would let you go faster than the speed of light(that would probably warrant a new thread).
Wouldn't negative mass be antimatter? it is definitely known to exist, if only for very short periods of time, and definitely not very much of it exists at one time, at least here on earth.
Wouldn't negative mass be antimatter?
How does that allow you to go FTL?
Well, IIRC, according to the game its from, they actually make mass effect 'corridors' between locations, in this corridor, EVERYTHING gets its mass reduced.
So, theoretically, since energy is mass, and vice versa, light itself gets its mass reduced and thus travels faster, thus raising the speed of light in the corridor above its speed outside the corridor; This allows the vessel to travel FTL relative to space OUTSIDE the corridor, while still being slower than light INSIDE the corridor.
Note, however, that forming a mass effect 'corridor' over interstellar distances, requires a pretty large station, which they call "Relay's", IIRC(I haven't played it in quite a while).
Would that work with real physics, I don't know, it sounds plausible to me, but I'm definitely NOT a physics guy by ANY stretch of the imagination; So I wouldn't be surprised at all if it wouldn't work with real physics.
Well, IIRC, according to the game its from, they actually make mass effect 'corridors' between locations, in this corridor, EVERYTHING gets its mass reduced.
So, theoretically, since energy is mass, and vice versa, light itself gets its mass reduced and thus travels faster, thus raising the speed of light in the corridor above its speed outside the corridor; This allows the vessel to travel FTL relative to space OUTSIDE the corridor, while still being slower than light INSIDE the corridor.
Note, however, that forming a mass effect 'corridor' over interstellar distances, requires a pretty large station, which they call "Relay's", IIRC(I haven't played it in quite a while).
Would that work with real physics, I don't know, it sounds plausible to me, but I'm definitely NOT a physics guy by ANY stretch of the imagination; So I wouldn't be surprised at all if it wouldn't work with real physics.
Negative mass would not be good enough. You'd have to have imaginary mass. Square root of negative one imaginary. Nothing like that is known.
Now, if you had negative mass I postulate your mass would go closer to 0, until you reached 0 mass; if you had the right starting mass, you would be traveling c when your mass hits 0. Then what happens when you apply your thrusters?
Hi guys, I have thought about this a lot too. From what I understand all Matter is coupled to the Higgs field by the Higgs boson, the more mass matter an object has the higher density the Higgs field will have around that object. My theory is if you could interfere with the Higgs bosons wave function, like the way light can cancel itself out then you could un-couple an object from the Higgs field and accelerate it past the speed of light. There would probably be some back pressure from the interstellar medium. This is just my idea, I have no evidence to back this up of course. :thumbup:
Oh, and Maximusfive, this is a video game we are talking about here, made by Electronic Arts. If you asked them that question they would probably have no idea what your talking about. I don't quite get what you mean by rest and relativistic mass. for this to mean something, mass would have to be a constant, and it isn't mass is connected to energy, which is itself connected to speed, so there is no 'rest' mass.