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To: Jacques Chitte who wrote (27839)	1/9/1999 8:18:00 PM
From: Sidney Reilly	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 108807

LRR, I think the consequences of traveling at the speed of light are different than looking at a quasar. As velocity increases, time slows. This is proven, no longer theory. As C is approached time will come to a stop. Relative to the rest of the universe the ship will be a point where time has stopped. If time has stopped would everything associated with the passage of time will be suspended also. Like thinking, metabolizing, walking or talking. That's uncharted territory. The light on the ship will react to velocity the same way a ball thrown out of a speeding car will. It will fall back. Look at it another way. The light is emitted at a single point in space. But the ship leaves that point in space and the light as it speeds forward. The light will stay where it was emitted but the ship moves forward giving the appearance that the light is falling back. There will be no light for our eyes to see with if we are not suspended in time. It will be a streak from the point of emission going to the back of the ship. As the ship achieves C the sun will wink out because the light from the sun will no longer be able to catch up with the ship. Will the light from the star we are going to increase in intensity being to us traveling at twice C. Bob