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Why is acceleration not constant near the speed of light

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dmitriy555 [2]3 years ago

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because when an object approaches the speed of light, it's mass starts to increase exponentially, and would be infinite at the speed of light. It would therefore require MORE than an infinite amount of energy to accelerate even a single electron to the speed of light

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