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		RetpolineDrama on April 10, 2023 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: I think faster than light travel is possible [vide... >At relativistic speeds, the mass goes up (significantly). What evidence is there of this actually occurring with any human-scale masses?

ndsipa_pomu on April 10, 2023 | [–]

I'd guess none for human-scale masses, but lots of evidence from particle accelerators of electrons having huge mass/energies.

yarg on April 10, 2023 | [–]

Good luck witnessing a human sized thing moving at that sort of speed.

There's this, however: https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/stars-that-race-t...

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