but from the point of view of the guy throwing the ball, the ball will move away from me at c faster than me. but time experienced by all involved would be a mess
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Brkdncr@lemmy.world 2 days agoThat’s where things get weird. The tip won’t exceed the speed of light. You could have a section near you moving at the speed of light and the tip will also be moving at c, because c is the limit.
If you were on a train moving at 100mph, and threw a baseball at 50mph in the direction of travel, then the baseball is moving at 150mph. But if you were moving at c and threw that baseball it would not go faster than c.
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Duke_Nukem_1990@feddit.org 2 days ago
In fact, everything would move very very rapidly away from the baseball hitting the first air molecule it touches (assuming you yourself have no mass in this scenario).