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The exhaust of antimatter-matter collision is photons. Will that accelerate a ship to light speed eventually?

2007-10-19 16:38:24 · 1 answers · asked by Rockstar 6 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Physics

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No. The relativistic mass increases without bound as v ->c so the amount of energy needed to reach c becomes infinite. Photons don't have that problem because they have no mass.

Doug

2007-10-19 17:06:08 · answer #1 · answered by doug_donaghue 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋

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