are you saying mine are worse :) ?

haha :) You been on the ice cream too?

3 exams, this one been the last. Need to 50% and above them all or I fail the year. No pressure.

Light can.

So if light particles can do it (travel at the speed of light), why is it such a stretch to comprehend that other forms of matter might be able to do it as well?

i have the uncanny abilty to hear in the dark. Thus I am not so quick to toss around the word "impossible" :D

:1orglaugh :1orglaugh :1orglaugh

Whats the fact that sound travels through vibrations in a medium, got to do with anything other than electromagnetic radiation travelling at light speeds?

At speeds approaching c best to stop thinking of light as particles

Because of relativistic mass increase. :2 cents:

That about sums it up.

it has to do with 1) the fact that some people so lack a sense of humor they completely miss that aspect of it,
and 2) the illustration (through humor mind you) of doing the seemingly impossible. I often find that those who are quick to say "that's impossible" are simply too close-minded to see that just because we as 21st century humans can't do it, doesn't necessarily mean something is impossible. It just means that it is impossible at present.

But why? Light IS particles.

Blabber jabber.

Once Dr. Daystrom invents the first warp drive you eggheads will eat your words.

why is that, because the theories don't hold up under such circumstances or because light particles stop existing at such speeds? :winkwink:

Because there isn;t a unified theory of light yet that holds true under all situations. Einstein would have got it, if he'd not been so obsessed with the goddam graviton......

or put another way the theories don't hold up under such circumstances :winkwink:

oh it's possible alright, i've done some RESEARCH, i know several peoples who done it trough a device by aliens, never tryed myself but i will do it one day..

I heard that the length of a second is based around our current galactic speed away from the point of origin of the big bang.

It is primarily this speed which gives us our current time dialation which we are familiar with.

If we were on a galaxy which was much further away from the point of origin of the big bang - then we would by definition be moving faster, and therefore incur a dialation whereby our seconds would last slightly longer.

(Using seconds to make it simple.)

now what numb skull bumped this?
this is settled fact.
Who exactly are any of you to suggest I'm wrong?

BTW - this means if you get on a rocket - and head back towards the point of origin of the big bang - your seconds will last a shorter period of time and you will age faster (as effectively you are moving slower than you were on the galaxy).

If you stop your rocket at the point of the origin of the big bang - then your seconds will elapse in an instant - you will no longer exist.

This I feel fits in with a unified theory of at the very least space, speed and time.

I disagree. I believe that time is linear no matter where in the universe you are. However, as you near the point of the big bang origin your head will implode.

I need a test subject.

Interesting article.

Zefram Cochrane, not Daystrom...Daystrom was a computer guy.

Umm no. Not even close. Star Trek delt in the concept of warp speed. The idea of being able to actually warp space. For example, point A and B are 3 light years apart. You warp the space between them so it's say maybe a few thousand miles depending upon the amount of warp you are applying.

The closest thing to what you're talking about our worm holes. (That would be Stargate, I always watch that right after Star Trek by the way.)

Sorry, was high on ice cream at the time. :D

I can't believe I read the whole thing and I still don't know how much the ice cream cost.

What a fucking nerd:)

all you did was disprove something einstein never implied

the limitation to traveling at the speed of light is mass

ie the closer you get to it the more your mass untill your mass becomes infinate at C

I may be wrong - but didnt Einstein say that nothing could ACCELERATE to the speed of light because infinate energy was required (and theres the equivalence between mass and energy of course). I dont think he thought nothing could travel at the speed of light - as of course light does.

Im thinking that just because you cant get to the speed of light doesnt mean you cant move at the speed of light if you are already in motion. Chicken and egg probably.

I know one thing - the answer is out there somewhere.

Dododo be dododo be .....

Black holes - when you approach a Black hole feet first the tidal gravitational forces vary so greatly from 1mm to the next (IE your foot is therefore under MASSIVELY MORE gravity than your knee) - that your body becomes stretched like a piece of chewing gum as it approaches the singularity.

Effectively each atom which once formed you and your spacesuit would be stretched out in a big line - with the atoms from your shoes spaced further apart than those which came from your head.

All in a split second as you accelerated towards oblivion.

All this shit about black holes leading to another is rubbish - trust me - go near a black hole and you are fucked - BIG TIME.

classic bumpage at Colin's request.

I've approached a black hole several times, but never feet first.

I'll have to try it.

On that we can agree. Each and every time I approached it I did get fucked, not only big time but royally.

:D

This thread is so full of fail it makes me giggle.

Back In Black

It would be just like this thread. With visuals.

A timely bump

I really want to know how the ice cream figured into the equation. But well done.

I am tempted to read this entire thread when I have a decent Internet connection, but in the meantime, do you have a rebuttal argument?

might be a sign of my intellectual laziness but the only thing that piqued my interest in 8 pages of blah blah blah was "Ben & Jerry's "coffee heathbar crunch" icecream"

Einstein was an overhyped idiot. If light has no mass, and travels as a wave, it cannot have an upper limit when traveling through a vacuum.

Congrats on showing how uber fucking stupid the rest of the forum is for incoherently trying to act like they know dick about relativity.

Thumbs up.

Damn, you're way more dumb than I thought!!

It must suck to have YOUR intelligence and spend 10 years at the bottom rung of the industry:thumbsup

It sets a relaxing environment for my intellectual gymnastics.

Yea those were the only words I really understood in this thread.