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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Storminator" data-source="post: 2397851" data-attributes="member: 305">1) if you do get the speed of light, time in the accelerated frame stops according to the observations of the stationary frame. In the accelerated frame, time seems to pass as usual.2) You can still move to the front of the space ship. As far as you can tell, the interior of the spaceship is stationary. The trick is to figure out what folks outside the ship see. And again he doesn't move faster than the speed of light. He moves at the speed of light. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f61b.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":p" title="Stick out tongue    :p"  data-smilie="7"data-shortname=":p" />3) There is defintely something supremely important there. This sort of reasoning completely upended all thoughts about physics when it first rolled around. The fact that it's not really all sorted out yet is testament to the power of those ideas.One thing to consider: Our reality is really just a self-consistent set of rules for describing what we observe. Mathematics has shown that for any self-consistent set of rules, breaking one rule allows you to eventually break them all. Not reaching the speed of light is one of our rules. If you can break that rule, you should be able to, at some point or another, defy each and every rule of physics. That's why it's so hard to think these things thru. No matter where you turn you start running into contradictions, from which there is no escape.PS</blockquote>

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