Are you familiar with the phrase "matter can neither be created nor destroyed"? Well, there's something a little peculiar about that, especially when you consider incorporating energy and light.
To begin with, the speed of light is 299,792,458 meters per second. [ A pause. ] That means it just goes very, very fast.
Anyway, a very famous scientist in my world proposed that the speed of light was the absolute upper limit of any speed. He developed an equation: energy equals mass multiplied by the speed of light, squared. That means, mass-- when going as fast as the speed of light-- can turn into energy, a state that theoretically has no mass.
[ *Note that Sanae is not giving the best explanation here, because she's Sanae. Also while weight may decrease the faster one goes, some may say the mass may increase the faster one goes depending on how one looks at it (relativity, cough cough). It can get confusing. ]
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To begin with, the speed of light is 299,792,458 meters per second. [ A pause. ] That means it just goes very, very fast.
Anyway, a very famous scientist in my world proposed that the speed of light was the absolute upper limit of any speed. He developed an equation: energy equals mass multiplied by the speed of light, squared. That means, mass-- when going as fast as the speed of light-- can turn into energy, a state that theoretically has no mass.
[ *Note that Sanae is not giving the best explanation here, because she's Sanae. Also while weight may decrease the faster one goes, some may say the mass may increase the faster one goes depending on how one looks at it (relativity, cough cough). It can get confusing. ]