Posted on 06/08/2012 8:33:17 PM PDT by presidio9
Nice try,, and i know we always get told evasions like that. But the standard constant, speed of light, is expressed as being in a vacuum.
Same thing as into nothingness, unless you also believe in dark matter.
Only if you're very careful to not get sun-burned. You have to sneak up on it, at night.
Not at all! Read the story found in the fifth chapter of Daniel, Old Testament. we just haven’t learned how to get back and forth from wherever that being stood when they reached into Belshazzar’s palace party central. And don’t forget that jesus left the burial wrappings and the stone tomb without unwrapping or rolling away the stone. He appear in a locked and shuttered room and vanished right before the eyes of two whom had walked with on the road, after he broke bread with them. Star jumping won’t be any big deal once God allows us to know how He did those things He wrote down for us in the Bible.
From one reference frame - yes.
From another reference frame - no.
Both are true at the same time, but not REALLY at the same time. It just looks that way to an observer in a third reference frame.
Real Reality 101
How can they see what is faster than light. That means a clock would hace to go backwards.
Now that’s a great line......
186,000 mps
It’s not just a good idea.
It’s the law.
And it applies to all moving things inside the universe.
But it doesn’t apply to the rate of expansion of the universe itself.
I agree with Presidio9.
Only particles with NO MASS can be propelled to the speed of light, in 'light' of Einstein's Mathematical Expression.
The less mass a particle has, the closer to the speed of light it can get.
The only question I have, is there some massless particle (or a particle with a negative mass) that can travel faster than the speed of light?
Not with any kind of reaction engine anyway. What we have now propels the craft forward by expelling reaction mass backward (equal and opposite). To exceed the speed of light you would need to expel mass at greater than the speed of light. I'm no rocket scientist, but I don't see how we can do that.
Guess we'll have to cheat in some sci-fi fashion, like harnessing wormholes or folding space...
If you work out the math, matter past the edge of the 'known' universe (which must constantly be accelerating, in order for the expansion to remain constant) is already way past the speed of light. We may never ever be able to 'see' the entire Universe, for that very reason.
Now, if the Universe is 'infinite', then the speed of light is constant.
Mull that over a little.
Tachyons for your tea, sir?
Now I know why my monitor 'flickers' all the time.
Well... we can see photons, but then we aren't looking from 'their' point of view.
Has anyone held them up to a mirror? I know I can see myself from my point of view, if I do.
For all we know, ‘we’ (the particles that make up our mass) may be created/destroyed in an instant, over and over.
Or... the universe is infinite.
Can you prove it is not?
Use particles that have a negative mass.
Sorry, I use chocolate milk in my tea. I get it from the center of the Milk Way Galaxy.
Sorry, I use chocolate milk in my tea. I get it from the center of the Milky Way Galaxy.
Which brings me to the question I’ve been itching to address: since speed is a function of distance and time, what if science discovers that Time is actually three variables, past —as in a linear function-, present -as in a planar function—, and future —as in a volumetric function? If we discover a way to create a temporal shift/disruption in the bond of ‘linear, planar, and volumetric time’ in front of a space craft (kind of on the order of a shock wave or cavitation for a submarine nose), would moving be still a function of distance and time spent covering that distance, or would distant points in space be in the present of the space craft and remain so while traversing the distance, like a photon does it?
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