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Old February 10th 08, 04:00 AM posted to rec.aviation.piloting
Bob Noel
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Default Why airplanes taxi

In article ,
WingFlaps wrote:

It would take infinite amount of energy to accelerate any non-zero
mass to the speed of light.

Ah an oft stated idea but why? Is E not 0.5MC^2 ?


reaching way way Way WAY back into college physics let's see if I remember
this correctly... because mass increases with velocity. If pressed, I may
even be able to find the formula in my quantum text.

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Bob Noel
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