Charles Liu
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first heard Sep 2025
last heard 18 Sep
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The Handy Quantum Physics Answer Book.
Uh I would No no no Hawkeye, the Black Widow before she got her brain implant retcon and things like that.
Uh there's some pretty good superheroes without uh Iron Man's Armor.
But Iron Man's Armor, yes, indeed, it evolved.
Originally it was designed to keep his heart going because he had it had been damaged.
But then Nan became more and more and more powerful until now he's like godlike because he has.
This armor.
But the interesting question, Marcus, is indeed, uh, if you had essentially infinite energy, would we be able to zip around the stars with no problem?
And the answer, alas, is no.
Uh and the reason is uh general theory of relativity.
Okay.
Uh the special theory of relativity itself would suffice as well.
In 1905, as you know, Albert Einstein, who was at that time doing his PhD work in Switzerland, uh, had basically come up with an explanation that the faster you go, you can get more and more massive at the same time.
And therefore you will
Never reach the speed of light because you will reach infinite mass and it takes infinite energy in order to go there.
So even if you could have some spacecraft that could have a nearly infinite or an arbitrarily large amount of energy, that spacecraft still cannot exceed the speed of light.
So it's still limited, and we are all still limited in space travel by the amount of time light takes to get from one star.
Which is too bad.
But Yeah,
No, no, that doesn't mean we shouldn't go.
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