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We have broken speed of light
Telegraph ^
| 08/16/2007
| Nic Fleming, Science Correspondent
Posted on 08/17/2007 8:19:28 AM PDT by poiuqwer
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To: poiuqwer
...energetic packets of light - travelled "instantaneously" between a pair of prisms that had been moved up to 3ft apart. Figures. The did it using mirrors.
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posted on
08/17/2007 9:31:15 AM PDT
by
6SJ7
To: in hoc signo vinces
Actually the Clintons broke the light barrier years ago. They are able to go back in time to erase what they said before if it conflicts with what they are saying now.
To: poiuqwer
299,792,458 meters per second. It’s not just a good idea, it’s the Law.
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posted on
08/17/2007 9:36:10 AM PDT
by
Lonesome in Massachussets
(NYT Headline: Protocols of the Learned Elders of CBS: Fake but Accurate, Experts Say)
To: poiuqwer
If light emanates from the sun at C in all directions, and the sun is moving around the center of the galaxy at 540,000 miles per hour (forgetting the speed of the galaxy) then something is already moving faster than C.
If light does not emanate from the sun in all directions at C, how does it ‘know’ the speed of the source, given that there is no limiting medium (like sound has)?
Can someone explain this paradox to me please?
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posted on
08/17/2007 9:37:13 AM PDT
by
SampleMan
(Islamic tolerance is practiced by killing you last.)
To: poiuqwer
A pair of German physicists claim to have broken the speed of lightThey're gonna need some duct tape.
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posted on
08/17/2007 9:38:17 AM PDT
by
shekkian
To: pieceofthepuzzle
Im so fast I can flip the light switch and get into bed before the room gets dark
Not bad, but can you sharpen your lawnmower’s blade,
while it’s running?
No? Slow-poke.
T”Flash”D
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posted on
08/17/2007 9:41:25 AM PDT
by
tumblindice
(Mmmmm-chinese chikken strips)
To: Vinnie
If you get into a glass chamber make sure there are no flies in it.
Too bad Vincent Price didn’t heed that advice.
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posted on
08/17/2007 9:44:46 AM PDT
by
crazyhorse691
(The faithful will keep their heads down, their powder dry and hammer at the enemies flanks.)
To: RightWhale; TommyDale
"this is the only violation of special relativity that I know of."
I have a girlfriend whose name is, Special Relativity, coincidentally.
She likes it when I violate her special places, relatively speaking
Yesterday's thread was better, though this one is young.
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posted on
08/17/2007 9:47:46 AM PDT
by
BOBTHENAILER
(One by one, in small groups or in whole armies, we don't care how we do it, but we're gonna getcha)
To: SampleMan
If a star moves at (say) half the speed of light through space then the light it sends forwards moves at C, and the light it sends backwards
also moves at C. Not at 1/2 C or 3/2 C, like one would expect.
It is this fact which causes all of the strange behaviour of objects moving at near-light speeds that you may have heard about with respect to relativity.
To: SampleMan
>Can someone explain this paradox to me please?
The speed doesn’t change. Space changes (whatever that is).
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posted on
08/17/2007 9:52:44 AM PDT
by
bkepley
To: N3WBI3
photons have no mass.Photons are protestants? Mercy!
Does the Pope know this?
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posted on
08/17/2007 9:55:36 AM PDT
by
Mad Dawg
(Oh Mary, conceived without sin, pray for us who have recourse to thee.)
To: Hoplite
I prefer blue-iculous. Too much emphasis is being placed on the red shift Doppler stuff these days.
p.s. good joke, I liked it.
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posted on
08/17/2007 9:56:45 AM PDT
by
Kevmo
(We should withdraw from Iraq — via Tehran. And Duncan Hunter is just the man to get that job done.)
To: poiuqwer
This reminds me of when the Russians claimed to have cooled something to absolute zero, or the cold fusion hoax claims, or any number of perpetual motion theories. Matter teleportation is about the only really new, revolutionary discovery that turned out to be true.
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posted on
08/17/2007 9:56:52 AM PDT
by
2harddrive
(...House a TOTAL Loss.....)
To: bkepley; SampleMan
explain this paradox to me please? ...The speed doesnt change. Space changesWhat's happening is that both space and time change as measured by any one observer.
Say you're on an escalator traveling at 299,792,457 meters per second (c -1.0 m/s) as measured by the Dept. store saleslady on the mezzanine. Ordinarily you're able to climb stairs at two meters per second, so you start going up the escalator steps and you confirm your speed with the stopwatch you're carrying.
What ends up happening is that you and your watch slow down, and even though you feel like you're speeding up, the saleslady watches you reaching the next floor at a speed that's less than c.
Trust me, it can't be done; I've tried it.
To: jonascord
"There have been serious studies of emitting a field to impart a positive or negative charge to dust in the path of a vehicle, and the opposite charge to the surface of the craft, making a "repulsor field"."
I think you have that backwards. Opposite polarity attracts, like polarity repels.
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posted on
08/17/2007 10:43:57 AM PDT
by
RebelTex
(Help cure diseases: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1548372/posts)
To: RebelTex
You’re quite right, I had it bass ackwards. D’oh!
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posted on
08/17/2007 11:10:36 AM PDT
by
jonascord
(Hurray! for the Bonny Blue Flag that bears the Single Star!)
To: holden
[I don’t know how many times you’ve been told to keep your tin foil hat on. :)
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posted on
08/17/2007 11:50:02 AM PDT
by
RetSignman
(DEMSM: "If you tell a big enough lie, frequently enough, it becomes the truth")
To: KayEyeDoubleDee
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posted on
08/17/2007 11:53:29 AM PDT
by
RetSignman
(DEMSM: "If you tell a big enough lie, frequently enough, it becomes the truth")
To: poiuqwer
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posted on
08/17/2007 12:02:13 PM PDT
by
ulm1
(Unless Republicans coalesce around an ELECTABLE candidate NOW, like Rudy, Fred or Mitt, HILLARY WINS)
To: jonascord
I cannot detect any smidgen of malice in post 29.
It does, however correct an erroneous statement with short, simple explainations and reference links, which is a good thing.
If left standing, the errors will be cited as fact and that will sooner or later cause big problems.
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posted on
08/17/2007 12:35:34 PM PDT
by
skeptoid
(AA, UE, MBS (with clusters))
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