Oh Yeah...............
Posted on 03/22/2006 5:34:03 PM PST by KevinDavis
March 22, 2006: Consider a pair of brothers, identical twins. One gets a job as an astronaut and rockets into deep space. The other stays on Earth. When the traveling twin returns home, he discovers he's younger than his brother.
This is Einstein's Twin Paradox, and although it sounds strange, it is absolutely true. The theory of relativity tells us that the faster you travel through space, the slower you travel through time. Rocketing to Alpha Centauri—warp 9, please—is a good way to stay young.
(Excerpt) Read more at science.nasa.gov ...
ah, yes, I believe you are correct.
.....OK, so what happend to the bad boy (and ugly) Trans warp speed starship.....
I believe the term used was TRANSWARP DRIVE---not speed
Oh Yeah...............
"Traveled in space...stayed home"
Post of the day! Bill for new keyboard is in the mail!
I thought there was an episode of "the next generation" where you can go unbelievably fast if an alien and the doctor's weenie kid concentrate really hard. The side benefit is that you get rid of the weenie kid at the end of the episode.
One big difference is that we knew some objects could go faster than sound, such as bullets. We just didn't know if a controllable and powerful enough airplane could do it.
AFAIK no one has measured or observed an object that has mass going faster than light.
"To expand your question, Earth isn't exactly standing still is it? And if the universe is expanding at a high rate of speed, then the space traveller could actually be traveling through space at a slower rate than the person on earth? eh?"
It has to do with accelerated frames of reference. The object that undergoes acceleration to a higher velocity, relative to the observer, will experience less time passing than the non-accelerated observer. If the two twins were to undergo the same accelerations, say in opposite directions, and then come back together, they would both have aged the same amount, which would be less than the non-accelerated observer aged.
Note that gravitational fields also cause an acceleration, and they also cause relativistic time effects. IIRC, the greater the gravitational field you're in, the slower time runs. So satellites in orbit around the earth experience time at a different rate than we do on the surface, not only because of their movement, but also because the gravitational field they experience is not as strong.
HTH.
It is indeed. I recall science fiction stories based on this seeming paradox that were written in the 1950s.
"Unless the "fact" can be experimentally tested and repeated it is not a fact; hell, it's not even science!"
The reality of Einstein's theories of relativity have been proven experimentally, repeatedly, with results in exact accordance to what the theories predict. Atomic clocks in spacecraft and the effect of gravitational lensing are both in agreement with his theories. I'm sure there is other evidence, also.
You know, despite her rather obvious physical attributes, I did think that Seven was one of the more interesting characters in that series. That whole "struggling to re-discover her humanity" thing.
MIT was able to slow the speed of light to 30 mph. Does that mean that I could drive thirty miles per hour and stay young while my wife grows old?
http://stng.36el.com/st-tng/episodes/747.html
"All Good Things" was the best STNG episode, ever.
I'd be inclined to agree with you. I always liked best the episodes featuring Q, and - as I think about it - that double segment does seem the most entertaining of a very entertaining collection. Data is wonderful as an English don.
If you don't mind being at a temperature 0.01 degree above absolute zero.
Only if she rides in the trunk.
Generally by whispering her lines at the crucial moment in the plot.
related:
Probing Question: Can anything travel faster than the speed of light?
PhysOrg.com | 23 March 2006 | Joe Anuta
Posted on 03/26/2006 11:51:36 AM EST by PatrickHenry
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1603436/posts
"Warp 10 is transwarp speed, something not attainable by Star Trek Federation ships within the series."
They didn't see my 76 Chevy Nova.
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