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#137 – Alex Filippenko: Supernovae, Dark Energy, Aliens & the Expanding Universe

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Accelerating the Newtonian Kinetic Energy

The energy is sort of, it's your rest mass, M not C squared divided by the square root of one minus V squared over C squared. So if you wanted to do it in zero time, you'd need an infinite amount of energy. That's basically why you can't reach let alone exceed the speed of light for a particle moving through a preexisting space.

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