Re: largest storage

From: Dagfinn Reiersol (reiersol_at_online.no)
Date: 10/12/04 

Date: Tue, 12 Oct 2004 15:59:07 +0200

Ilja Preuß wrote:
> Robert C. Martin wrote:
>
>>All energy states are quantized, and the maximum is the speed
>>of light.
>
>
> As I think about it, I seem to remember that the mass becomes infinite at
> spped of light, which seems to suggest that energy would too? (Isn't that
> actually the reason why particles with rest mass greater than zero can't
> reach speed of light?)
>
>
>>There may be an awful lot of energy states for a particle,
>>but the number is finite.
>
>
> The above would mean that the energy doesn't have an upper bound?
>
> And even if it would, there could still be an infinite number of quantized
> energy states below a bound, couldn't it?

And in fact, if the number of states were finite, wouldn't that imply
that the speed limit would be *below* the speed of light, defined by the
state with the highest energy level?

>
>
>>Indeed, it is this finite number of states
>>that keeps white dwarves and neutron stars stable.
>
>
> Ok, I'll accept for the moment that there are a finite number of states. I
> don't see how that follows from the above, though.
>
> Puzzled, Ilja
>
>

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