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Not even light, which as far as it is concerned does travel infinitely quickly, would be
able
to overcome it – provided the base we were resting on was ever so slightly curved: As
soon as the photon slid above the plane that was space, it would get swept up in the
curvature
of this hyperbolic 4D space. It would trace the limit of it, true, but it would get caught in
it.
And then, from our perspective, it would start to look as if it were simply moving
uniformly
at a speed of c. 299,792,458 m/s. After all, we would see it leave, and then we would time
how long it would take to arrive
at its destination. It doesn’t matter for us that it believed it had arrived there
instantaneously by taking
a shortcut through time. We would just record it as having arrived after some time had
passed.
So, there you have it. Why is there a speed limit for our universe?
Perhaps because space is curved, and our 4D space is hyperbolic.
At least, so claims this theory. It is, it must be stressed, just a theory.
It’s possible that smarter people than me in the comments will explain to me why this is
wrong, and it doesn’t entirely account for the role of gravity in distorting this
4D space. However, it does neatly highlight why light physically can’t travel faster than
it does
– the faster it moves, the more serious the drag placed upon it by the hyperbolic
geometry it encounters, which I find quite appealing. In fairness, it would be intriguing
to see if from our perspective we could travel faster
than the speed of light. This model claims it is allowable, but we have never even gotten
close to this speed,
so it would be difficult to test it. The fastest a human has ever gone is 11,083 m/s, when
NASA astronauts returned in a spaceship