- last post: 01.01.0001 12:00 AM PDT
Posted by: DarkHellfire
Here guys, I can make up stupid ways to win this argument too.
And who is the other person with a stupid way to win a debate? surely not me because you have YET to refute my statements. I have only seen speculation so far...
And BTW this will get you started on the neccisary requirements to accelerate something to the speed of light, hope you can make sense of it. But then again not many people who dont have a physics degree(or are not working on one) can.
Actually the velocity of light is a scaling constant, or metric, which appears in James Clerk Maxwell's equations for the propagation of electromagnetic waves in any medium. The velocity of light is dependent not only on the dielectric permittivity, e,---in free space designated as e(0); but also on the magnetic permeability of a medium, m,---which for free space is designated as m(0).
The propagation velocity for electromagnetic waves, c, is related to e and m according to the following equation,
1/c2 = m0e0
c = 1/[m0e0]1/2
[Edited on 7/29/2004 6:01:30 PM]