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Ginkgo wrote: Fri Jun 26, 2015 6:19 am
Systematic wrote:
Ginkgo wrote: It doesn't. It is impossible to accelerate a mass to the speed of light. It wold require an infinite amount of energy to do so. This idea is probably related to a mathematical explanation, or logical outcome of such a scenario. It isn't possible.
The speed of light is finite, therefore it would take a finite amount of energy to reach it.

This connection between energy and mass, known as mass-energy equivalence, was immortalized in Einstein’s equation E = mc2, where E stands for energy, m stands for mass and c is a constant (which happens to be equal to the speed of light). Actually, E = mc2 is just the simplest case scenario, that for a body or mass at rest. For a body in motion, with a velocity v, the equation becomes E = Einstein's Mass-energy equivalence equation. We have already seen that the Lorentz factor γ ≡ Lorentz Factor, so we can therefore also say that E = γmoc2 (where mo is the rest mass of the object). As can perhaps be reasonably easily deduced from these equations, as the velocity (v) approaches the speed of light (c), energy (E) approaches infinity, indicating that the body would in fact require an infinite amount of energy to accelerate to the speed of light. We can also see how (as mentioned in a previous section) the mass of a moving object becomes greater and greater as its velocity increases until, at the speed of light, it becomes infinite.

Taken from The Physics of the Universe.com
To think about.
Velocity is relative. A object's velocity is only in relation to some other object. There is no, "absolute," velocity.

If object M is moving at a velocity 40% C (ninety percent of the speed of light) relative to object N, and, in the same direction, object N is moving at a velocity 40% C relative to P, what is the velocity of M relative to P? Won't it be 80% C (velocity of M plus the velocity of N)?

If object M is moving at a velocity 90% C (ninety percent of the speed of light) relative to object N, and, in the same direction, object N is moving at a velocity 90% C relative to P, what is the velocity of M relative to P? Won't it be 180% C (velocity of M plus the velocity of N)?
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https://youtu.be/BLsfqzBDnaA

What the hell do the Danes know about human nature? They sit in their snowy ass mountains drinking their swiss miss coco.
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Lol @ Zizek again. Nature does not exist.

https://youtu.be/DIGeDAZ6-q4
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On two forms of ecological ideology; fake antipocentrism and everyday anticonsumerist consumerism. And so on and so on.

https://youtu.be/75_nisowGX8
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Sam wants to keep capitalism but restructure the government and raise the shit out of high income taxes if only to clean the place up for god sakes!

https://youtu.be/atj5jn7Un1Y
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https://youtu.be/Il7Kxw9TDBc

Bertrand 'the pipe' Russell...
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'endearing foibles', the tiny element of imperfection in people that is the reason we love them, etc.

"the illusion of perfection is created precishhly by this excess. If you take away this excess you don't get perfection..."

https://youtu.be/7xYO-VMZUGo

i find zizek very entertaining to listen to precishhly for that reason. The obnoxious tics, the minor speech impediment combined with the accent, the comedic effect of talking about plastic dildos, the sheer speed of his thinking.... it all makes for a captivating sight. I could hang out with SZ all day man.
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I will have to check out these videos. However I have mainly been watching youtube videos on philosophy posted by "The school of life". These are short 12 - 15 minute videos on various philosophers and their philosophies. Explains everything in an easy concise manner that a ten year old would understand. Of course that's not implying the inferiority of it, but rather the ease of which it explains everything. Also Einzelganger has a good short simple series on various philosophical subjects. Also on youtube.
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"the man had more wit and style and substance than a few civilizations i could name" - Harris, Sam (on Hitchens)

an old Sam throwback for the fans. about an hour long.

https://youtu.be/ITTxTCz4Ums
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@ 36:00 Harris, Sam presents his 'The Worst Possible Misery For Everyone' thesis as a simplified foundation for 'objective morality'. the fact that everyone but the most abnormal of people naturally prefer that TWPMFE be avoided is sufficient as a foundation for any morality u want to call 'objective'. that's as objective as it needs to be to have a foundation. moreover, there are better ways than others to avoid TWPMFE, which means there are objectively good and bad ways to 'navigate this space' as he put it. For example, sending everyone to a death camp is not as effective at avoiding TWPMFE as giving them Disneyland tickets is.

so there u have it, or as close to it as you're gonna get. u have a whole bunch of people who unanimously agree to try and avoid TWPMFE, and certain ways to do that.

https://youtu.be/yqaHXKLRKzg
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promethean75 wrote: Thu Mar 02, 2023 2:11 am @ 36:00 Harris, Sam presents his 'The Worst Possible Misery For Everyone' thesis as a simplified foundation for 'objective morality'. the fact that everyone but the most abnormal of people naturally prefer that TWPMFE be avoided is sufficient as a foundation for any morality u want to call 'objective'.
That doesn't sound like objective to me. That sounds like consensus, popular opinion.

I respect Sam Harris immensely as a thinker, but I've always found his arguments for objective morality to be... unsatisfying.

I agree with his moral principles in general, just not with his framing of them as "objective".
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harris, sam means objective in the laymen's sense, not in a technical epistemological sense. he's meaning only that everyone agrees that TWPMFE would be bad, not that there is some such quality as 'objective goodness' out there in the universe or that there could be some transcendental ground for morality. 
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I'm watchin' videos, philosophical videos, and they don't make any sense to me. I mean they do make sense in a Peter S. Hammond kinda way but I'm not Peter S. Hammond! :roll:
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i rarely watch philosophy videos becuz I've seen em all but when i do i watch zizek's stuff. he's the only guy who genuinely enjoys being a philosopher. the rest of em are far too stolid for my tastes.
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