Quote Originally Posted by mrdevious
That's something I never understood. Why is it that this one prominent energy, light, is the mark for what speed nobody can achieve? Also I was under the impression that travelling at a faster velocity at a far away point in space would cause a minor time differential. For instance, I remember hearing about this Russian astronnaught who was in space for 8 months, and they said that according to relativity he would have come back about 5 minutes younger than the point he would have aged to had he spent that time on earth.
I read that too, mrdevious, but I think it has something to do with re-entry and timelines, etc. Not sure.

Its a good question you brought up though, about how light is a measurement no one can achieve. The same goes for time itself. Time is a measurement of an abstract - Time cannot be PHYSICALLY measured. And we measure time using the birth of Christ as a starting point (or rather a middle one) yet we're unsure when the fucker was actually born!

Its strange to say 60 seconds has past since I started typing this post - but if a second doesn't actually exist (i.e. can't be measured, therefore an abstract) then am I really typing this thread? What if eternity happens in an instant? What if an instant is acutally eternity? Are we just a random thought in a sea of trillions of thoughts?