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To: EdHallick
We need to build a ship entirely of photons

Here's my theory. Build a photon ship with headlights mounted on it. When you reach the speed of light, turn on the headlights. Now you've got light travelling at the speed of light squared. Turns relativity on its head.

35 posted on 06/12/2005 6:41:31 PM PDT by Larry Lucido
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To: Larry Lucido

except that is the fundamental crux of relativity.... Light goes the same speed no matter how fast you are traveling. Turning on the light when you are moving fast doesn't make it go faster.


41 posted on 06/12/2005 6:57:25 PM PDT by Brilliant
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To: Larry Lucido; EdHallick

These super fast computers that ca do 5000 different calculations at the same time, when all the various factors are calculated, are they working close to the speed of light?


44 posted on 06/12/2005 7:08:24 PM PDT by B4Ranch ( Report every illegal alien that you meet. Call 866-347-2423, Employers use 888-464-4218)
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To: Larry Lucido

I wish what you said were true. It isn't, and is deal with in every single "elementary" relativity and quantum mechanics I've seen.

Your plan to go "faster than the speed of light" does not work.

(to my chagrin)


81 posted on 06/12/2005 8:42:10 PM PDT by AFPhys ((.Praying for President Bush, our troops, their families, and all my American neighbors..))
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