Casaubon, maybe the problem can be turned into a solution.
<<particles with mass asymptotically approach the speed of light, never reaching it, the energy to accelerate the particle increases to infinity.>>
Ok, so getting close to the speed of light is the easy part, and its that
last 1% that looks likes two parallel lines close but not touching, but
ever so littlest of little they are converging. Ok, we close to the speed
of light, so time for us seems normal, but by Earth's view each day of
this extremely small particle is a million years, so this particle can not
get too bored as its velocity per second continues to increase, as the
closer it gets, the lines "almost" touching, a million billion Earth years
can pass before this particle is a year older. And remember the word
infinity is really us humans in a quandary to understand this abstraction
we call time, as Ron has pointed out I have trouble with abstractions.
So as that saying "never say never", as in can't happen.
<<seems like there is an upper limit to temperature>>
<< My intuition tells me, the answer to this question lies in the physics of fission. As the temperature of matter increases beyond a certain point, it would destabilize the forces required to hold the nucleus together. At that point, the nucleus would fly apart resulting in a release of energy, sub-atomic particles, and/or smaller nuclei.>>
I think I heard that the Big Bang was quite a hot event.
But noone was around to notice.
doug |
