Mysterious object traveling 4x speed of light

[skyman]

Originally Posted by J'aimelescravates

lol come on
I was hoping for something like "Radio waves are protons which are massless and therefore is possible for them to exceed speed of light"

Protons have no mass? isn't their mass +1?

 

[dusty]

Nothing composed of energy or matter can go faster than the speed of light ok

 

[Don Carlos]

Originally Posted by dusty

Nothing composed of energy or matter can go faster than the speed of light ok

Wrong, dumbass, otherwise we wouldn't have warp drives and ****. I mean, come on!

 

[T4phage]

Originally Posted by Mark it 8

Dont quark particles travel at faster than the speed of light?

I don't know but foreplay seems to pass pretty quickly these days.

 

[T4phage]

Originally Posted by CunningSmeagol

Was this emission nocturnal?

No foreplay -> faster than the speed of light. The sonic boom tends to wake me up, though.

 

[T4phage]

Originally Posted by skyman

Protons have no mass? isn't their mass +1?

That's not mass, you fool!!! that's their IP address.

 

[T4phage]

Originally Posted by dusty

Nothing composed of energy or matter can go faster than the speed of light ok

oh yeah genius?? prove it!

 

[ComboOrgan]

Originally Posted by Rölfi

don't worry, protons have a mass: 1,672 621 637(83) · 10^(−27) kg

afaik if you get closer to light speed your mass increases, so if you hit light speed you have an infinite mass.

but i can't argue the points in the article posted by the OP, it just seems like a bunch of bullshit to me

I think he meant to say "photons" not "protons". Photons are massless, and travel at the speed of light because photons are the "stuff" that light is made of.

 

[ComboOrgan]

Originally Posted by skyman

Protons have no mass? isn't their mass +1?

It can be, depending on what units you are using.

 

[skyman]

Originally Posted by ComboOrgan

It can be, depending on what units you are using.

Yeah I meant using Relative. Also concur on was the original posting meaning a photon not a proton. As anything with mass the energy required to put it at the speed of light tends to infinity according to E=mc^2.

Also 4x the speed of light is impossible.