Posted on 01/07/2009 9:35:25 AM PST by Victory111
Some of the most popular TV shows today are top ten lists. Everything from the top ten most deadly snakes to the top ten worst disasters is being aired. Here is a top ten list of what could be considered the hardest things to believe from the year 2008. That there are only ten is also hard to believe when in reality there are literally hundreds.
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Ten pounds of $hit in a five pound bag.
This also happens to be the BEST description I've seen so far of our president-elect.
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Since time decreases in equal and direct proportion to the speed of light it would take only 8 years to reach the closest star (Alpha Centauri) but on return the earth would be over 400,000 years older than when we left.
Time slows as one approaches the speed of light. Traveling at the speed of light it would take a lot less than eight years to make this roundtrip from the perspective of the traveler. Don't have the math at hand.
But from the perspective of someone here on earth it would be eight years, not 400,000. Same time it would take to send a radio signal to AC and get a reply.
It is highly unlikely anybody will ever approach the speed of light. Too many issues. Hopes for faster than light speed involve "folding" space by getting a better understanding of what advanced physics thinks may be up to 12 dimensions, only three (or four, counting time) of which we can presently detect. If such ever becomes possible, we may be able to travel between planets, stars and even galaxies in no time at all.
I'd like to address this assumption from Number 4.
Only a very small number of bones actually fossilize. The rest decompose. The author doesn't seem to be familiar with the process of fossilization.
Archaeologists do not dig up 4 million year old hominid bones. They dig up 4 million year old fossils of hominid bones.
Plus, Number 9 is so laughable that any response to enlighten the author is a waste of time.
In 2008 no one has endeavored to explain to our best minds or the general public the real problem of space travel has to do with time not space. Provided men could reach speeds approaching the speed of light even a trip to the edge of our galaxy and back would find the sun burned out and the earth erased upon return. Since time decreases in equal and direct proportion to the speed of light it would take only 8 years to reach the closest star (Alpha Centauri) but on return the earth would be over 400,000 years older than when we left.
This person obviously has a very imperfect understanding of time dilation as calculated using the Lorentz Transformation.
If he were traveling at almost the speed of light, the astronaut would experience the flight to and back from Alpha Centauri as requiring only, e.g., a few hours (of his subjective time.) Meanwhile, approx. eight years (not 400,000 years) would have transpired for an observer who remained back on Earth.
Regards,
#1. The United States elected a Kenyan-born Marxist as President.
Yup. Whether you believe in creation by a god or not, this is just a dumb way of expressing the issue.
Shhhhhh.....true knowledge and understanding is not needed.
Didn’t you know that the skeleton of every animal that has ever died in the entire history of the planet should still be here?
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