• Chrobin@discuss.tchncs.de
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    10 hours ago

    Well, nothing (with nonnegative mass) can move faster than light through space. Space itself can do whatever it wants to.

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      7 hours ago

      I don’t know why maybe the painkillers are speaking but I have to ask, does farts count as negative mass?

      I’ll take my leave…

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        6 hours ago

        Okay … enjoy your painkillers, man.

        Incoming vibe killer: no, farts do not count as negative mass. They do in fact have positive mass. You will weigh ever so slightly less after farting. And, in theory, if you were in a frictionless environment, you could propel yourself by farting, because the fart’s mass would act as a reaction mass and propel you like a (very weak and stinky) rocket.

        Negative mass would be a very weird thing that breaks physics in a lot of ways, and probably isn’t physically possible in the first place. Allowing faster-than-light travel is only one of many stupid ways negative mass would horribly wreck all known physics.