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Originally posted by JET@Sep 8 2004, 8:32 AM
Yeah, and I stated that it will appear that c will be exceeded, in what I said. Also, I don't know if you know or not, but c has been exceeded. It just has not been exceeded by anything with mass.
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No proof exists that c has been exceeded.I have read about experiments over the years in which scientists have supposedly accelerated photons faster than c.In these cases it still only "appears" c has been exceed, but its more than likely other things, like quantum tunneling, that are actually happening.
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Also, Einstein's theory has not been proven on a grand scale. We are stuck on this tiny speck of sand in the universe. Things may be different on a larger scale.
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Gravitational lenses billions of light years away, blackholes, and the perihelion shift of Mercury have all been observed and accurately predicted by relativity.I don't know of a more grand scale than that.Its actually the extremely tiny small scales where relativity breaks down, which is where quantum mechanics come into play.