'Bent time' tips pulsar out of view

BBC ^ | 9 January 2015 | Jonathan Webb

[moose07]

That’s what worries me,
Shhhh, he might be listening. :)

[Darksheare]

Compressed darkoffee.

[moose07]

A weapon made from true “Dark matter”!
Could this be inverted to Anti-Darkoffee ?
Think of the behind Armour effects!
Through the Armour and instant Zombification of the crew.

*The Apache now carries up 16 Zomiefire Missiles*

[Darksheare]

Not certain.
The science is hazy.

[steve86]

Interesting. Since space is what’s between objects, (space is not an object) it’s difficult to see how space can be bent.

That would have been a common objection pre-relativity, when all that was known was flat space-time, and massless things were thought to always go "straight". It turns out that the presence of mass induces what could be called gravity, causing a ray of light, say, to bend as it passes nearby and the time that the ray "experiences" to warp also. That is the "bend" -- things that would otherwise go straight take a curved trajectory, including light. No ether-like medium is needed, any more than there is for the sun's gravity to tug on the earth.

[steve86]

Those quantum field fluctuations aren’t relevant to the effects of relativity, though.

[steve86]

Exactly. It can be bent only if it is made of what used to be called “The ether”.

Please see subsequent comments including the one immediately following yours.

[cuban leaf]

I was just having fun with the thread. Everyone knows that...well, the more we know, the more we know we don’t know. :-)

[Rockpile]

Feringi stole the thing and sold it.

[skinkinthegrass]

!

[moose07]

WooHoo! You got the 50!

[moose07]

“Feringi stole the thing and sold it.”

Thats okay, i know Daimon Tron.
He’ll give his weight in Gold-pressed Latinum not to have to tell us who he sold it to.

[MHGinTN]

Um, according to the work of Haisch, Rueda, and Puthof they are precisely the filed from which inertia arises and thus gravity.

[MHGinTN]

‘precisely the FIELD’ ... need more coffee.