More to the point -- or perhaps I should say, to the bit -- is that it makes no more sense to talk about speeds greater than light than it does probabilities greater than 1:
http://www.mathpages.com/home/kmath216/kmath216.htm On Tue, Mar 4, 2014 at 12:35 PM, D R Lunsford <antimatter3...@gmail.com>wrote: > No one will ever take cold fusion seriously if they come here and read > nonsense about how relativity is wrong. All of these specious arguments > focus on the constancy of the speed of light. > > What is never understood is that C isn't the speed of anything in > particular. It is a parameter that characterizes the geometry of spacetime, > which is no longer Euclidean. The structure of this geometry emerges from a > very simple (group theoretic) analysis. The parameter C emerges out of the > analysis and is either finite, or not. Experience shows that it is finite. > The derivation is here, I gave it some years ago and this person has added > commentary, most of which is helpful. Only simple algebra is required. > > That light goes at C is incidental to the existence of a universal > constant with the dimensions of speed. It does so because the corresponding > field is massless. The most important point to be grasped is that one does > not assume C=constant - this comes right out of the symmetry and > homogeneity analysis. Euclidean geometry is also characterized by a > constant - however it is imaginary, and corresponds to the "circular points > at infinity" in projective geometry. > > http://membrane.com/sidd/wundrelat.txt > > -drl > > > -- > "Time flies like an arrow, but fruit flies like a banana." - Marx >
