• Luna@ani.social
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    4 days ago

    Relative speeds also cannot exceed the speed of light. Since there’s no absolute reference frame, if this were possible it would be no different than exceeding the speed of light on “absolute” terms. Once you get up to speeds where this would matter, funny dilation effects that I’m too dumb to understand would prevent this.

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      4 days ago

      Cars are not driving away from each other at more than the speed of light relatively. The road is stretching faster than the speed of light.

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        3 days ago

        Yeah, but wouldn’t this lead to the cars perceiving each other as moving faster than light?

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          3 days ago

          No, because the space is expanding faster than light, the light can’t bridge the gap and so you and the other car simply can’t perceive each other at all.