Originally posted by witsend
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a decent experiment could be to see what happens when one spins a disc at 98%-99% the speed of light and then time the deceleration to a stop after turning off power. Then time it again when you have it at the proposed max speed (which always seems to be close to light speed. Like the Large Hadron Collider - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia reports close to speed of light), but im betting they have got them particles travelling faster but they cant register it properly. Timing this deceleration to a stop, they may find that there is a disproportianate difference in time it takes to slow to a stop. Which would indicate they are going faster than the speed of light and only timing a deceleration would be the only thing to calculate faster than speed of light.
May even be better to just use the Large Hadron Collider - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Seeing as they got it setup to do speeds required.
So to recap- Speed faster than light needs to be calculated in decelerate time and to not try to calculate velocity while its going faster than speed of light
EDIT: Just had another thought. If it were to be possible to setup a camera/detector to follow the particle on its travel around the Hadron. Then they could calculate the speed of the particle moving away from the camera/detector and add that to the speed of the camera/detector. Trouble would be to get the camera at a decent speed. But if they are getting the speed of the particle at a supposidly 99.9% speed of light and they get the camera/detector to a speed of 1% speed of light then surely the calculation would show 100.9% speed of light. Vuala, faster than lightspeed calculated
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Adie
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