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To: tortoise
i wont take it as an insult, so long as you assume that you are capable of enlightening me. i have several mentors far more qualified than yourself in my life, but by all means, if you can explain how life can exist without the Divine Spark, by all means, i beseech you.

also, Saying so is similar to saying that we are getting close to breaking the speed of light, and we just need to build faster rockets to do it.

i recall a gas of sorts being used in recent years. they shot a light beam through the gas, and it reached the wall BEFORE it hit the gas itself. the gas was behaving on a quantum level, and bypassed some laws of matter that we find in natural science. if we can make LIGHT go faster than LIGHT, wouldn't it stand to reason that we could make US (maybe travel isn't the right word, but....) get from point A to point B FASTER than light?


absolute zero, keep in mind, is not a "temperature" technically, so much as a speed of molecules. we achieved the speed not by super cooling a system, but by firing photons into the molecules at an opposing vector, thus attempting to stop movement much the same way can stop a car with a brick wall. (or an intruder with a tumbling bullet from a Colt .45) the trick is honing the power to be precise and to hold the movement long enough to note and study any changes in behaviour in the molecules. both of these "impossibilities" are becomng more and more plausable.
844 posted on 07/08/2004 8:27:13 PM PDT by MacDorcha
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To: MacDorcha
i recall a gas of sorts being used in recent years. they shot a light beam through the gas, and it reached the wall BEFORE it hit the gas itself. the gas was behaving on a quantum level, and bypassed some laws of matter that we find in natural science

You recall incorrectly. It's important to know the difference between group velocity and phase velocity. Neither energy nor information was transmitted faster than light.

Absloute zero is a temperature; it's just a valid as 98.6F; only it's harder to reach. There are nevative temperatures too (think laser); they are just hotter than positive ones.

847 posted on 07/08/2004 8:36:30 PM PDT by Doctor Stochastic (Vegetabilisch = chaotisch is der Charakter der Modernen. - Friedrich Schlegel)
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