It has been 30 years since I took Physics in High School, so the fact that I remember anything from it is amazing. Drawing on what I do remember I know, if you prescribe to Einstien's theories, that the relativistic mass of a body/particle/object is equal to its rest mass divided by the square root of one minus the velocity squared over the speed of light squared, or...

This equation is actually a limit, as the velocity approachs the speed of light, the relativistic mass becomes bigger and bigger supposedly approaching infinity.

Similiarly the size of the body changes such that the relativistic length is equal to the rest length times the square root of 1 minus the velocity squared over the speed of light squared, or...

...or as the velocity approaches the speed of light the length of the body approaches zero.

Once more, the time that passes in relationship to the body in movement, or the relativistic time is equal to the rest time times the square root of 1 minus the velocity squared over the speed of light squared, or...

...again, in relation to time this time, as the velocity approaches the speed of light, the time passing approaches zero.

So what happens when a body reaches the speed of light? By the mass equation it can't happen. If the velocity ever reached the speed of light, it would be division by zero, and we all know what that means, right? But personally I think all reality pivots around this fact - that is that even if the speed of light can't be accomplished because of the limit, it can theoretically come close to the speed of light, and become extremely massive. At a certain point it becomes so massive that becoming infinitely massive is a moot point. It rips right through the fabric of space and becomes what we commonly know as a black hole... or maybe not, don't know, but it is an interesting thought, isn't it? Now I often wonder, well maybe not all that often, but at least once, if light is matter in the form of a photon, when light shines on us why we aren't crushed in a million billion different ways. These things are going the speed of light, which is not suppose to be possible anyway, but they are, and that means, by the equation that they are infinitely massive. I actually think this is enough of a contradiction to throw these theories out and start looking for another explanation to begin with. But giving the "people who know" the benefit of the doubt (sad that such brilliant people need it) I can say that, ignoring all the other inconsistancies that the length equation comes to the rescue. The reason why we aren't pelted with photons of infinite mass is because going the speed of light the dimension that would ultimately reach us doesn't exist. This is aided further by the time equation which shows that the time, the time necessary for something to travel the distance from where it is at to where we are, does not pass. Wait a minute...I think this is so mind blowing!!!... by definitions, something goes so fast that it doesn't travel a distance. These contradictions are enough to indicate to me that Einstein, or at least his sponsors, had an agenda and thought the general public was stupid.

to be continued...