Re: In search of the perfect Disassembler

snowman wrote: 
"T.M. Sommers" wrote:

Electromagnetic theory shows that the speed of light cannot be exceeded. That is at least one thing can not be done. 

Actually, you're mistaken.  EM Theory makes no such claim.

I think you are getting confused with Einstein's Special Theory of Relativity, which describes the motion of particles moving at close to the speed of light .

And SR is an electromagnetic theory. The title of Einstein's 1905 paper was, "On the Electrodynamics of Moving Bodies" (in German, of course). His two postulates of relativity are really just ways of saying, "See those constants in the wave equation? They are really constant. For everyone, everywhere, all the time (or at least everyone in an inertial reference frame, if you want to be picky)." Physically, relativity follows from the fact that, unlike things like sound waves, EM waves are not waves of some medium. All this was in Maxwells' equations published in 1865.

btw - as for your assertion that "speed of light cannot be exceeded" - quantum mechanics suggests that tachyons are able to exceed the speed of light. Whether you believe tachyon particles exist is another matter completely.

Normal matter cannot exceed the speed of light. If tachyons exist, broken speed limits will be the least of our worries.

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Thomas M. Sommers -- tms@xxxxxx -- AB2SB

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