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'We have broken speed of light'
Telegraph ^
| 8/16/07
| Nick Fleming
Posted on 08/16/2007 10:15:43 AM PDT by LibWhacker
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To: taxcontrol
I’m sure anything Captain Kirk did with Slave Drusilla was only for the good of the Enterprise and the Federation. You know, like James Bond doing it for Queen and Country.
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posted on
08/16/2007 11:05:15 AM PDT
by
colorado tanker
(I'm unmoderated - just ask Bill O'Reilly)
To: LibWhacker
How do you measure “instantaneous”?
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posted on
08/16/2007 11:05:44 AM PDT
by
JimRed
("Hey, hey, Teddy K., how many girls did you drown today?" TERM LIMITS, NOW!)
To: wolfinator
“Do photons have mass?”
Yes, but they are very light.
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posted on
08/16/2007 11:05:45 AM PDT
by
MeanWestTexan
(Kol Hakavod Fred Thompson)
To: CHEE
Most important! Will it cause more Global Warming?
barbra ann
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posted on
08/16/2007 11:06:02 AM PDT
by
barb-tex
(Why replace the IRS with anything?)
To: TommyDale
Does this mean Hillary is already president?
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posted on
08/16/2007 11:06:10 AM PDT
by
myuhaul
To: TommyDale
Does this mean Hillary is already president?
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posted on
08/16/2007 11:06:10 AM PDT
by
myuhaul
To: r9etb
Current test equipment can locate a fault within inches over a distance of 25 miles, but measuring the actual speed isn’t feasible. Like you said, the precise “arrival time” cannot be measured accurately and would be definitely be difficult to prove that a lightwave arrived before it actually left. That entire idea is preposterous.
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posted on
08/16/2007 11:06:56 AM PDT
by
TommyDale
(Never forget the Republicans who voted for illegal immigrant amnesty in 2007!)
To: LibWhacker
'We have broken speed of light'Perhaps we can apply some of that technique to the interstate system. :-)
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posted on
08/16/2007 11:06:59 AM PDT
by
meyer
(It's the entitlements, stupid!)
To: LibWhacker
“Being able to travel faster than the speed of light would lead to a wide variety of bizarre consequences. For instance, an astronaut moving faster than it would theoretically arrive at a destination before leaving. “
Why is light speed necessarily the benchmark for this?
To: wolfinator
Photon torpedoes do!
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posted on
08/16/2007 11:07:32 AM PDT
by
HenpeckedCon
(Can I please freep just a little while longer Dear?)
To: LibWhacker
???? How is this different that items of mass acting in a wave/Heisenberg Uncertenty principle?
Seems like the same mechanism, ie. everything exists everywhere at varying probabilities...until directly measured.
To: camerakid400
To: TommyDale
Do you have a link that explains this statement? I’ve seen it thrown around a lot, but it just seems counter-intuitive. If moving beyond “C” were possible, such statements would be moot.
To: LibWhacker
Being able to travel faster than the speed of light would lead to a wide variety of bizarre consequences.For instance, an astronaut moving faster than it would theoretically arrive at a destination before leaving.
And idiot Senators would have an excuse for "voting for something before they voted against it"...
To: myuhaul
Actually, she has already been impeached and is serving time in prison!! Here is what happened when Hillary actually flew faster than the speed of light:
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posted on
08/16/2007 11:08:33 AM PDT
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TommyDale
(Never forget the Republicans who voted for illegal immigrant amnesty in 2007!)
To: LibWhacker
...astronaut moving faster than it would theoretically arrive at a destination before leaving Actually, Kurt Godel developed a solution to the Einstein equations which describe "closed timelike lines" in which it is possible to travel "back" in time without having to travel faster than the speed of light. He presented the solution in a paper to Einstein on the occasion of Einstein's 70th birthday (14 March, 1949). The paper extended relativity theory in [at that time] disturbing ways. In particular it suggests that Time is more like a spatial dimension (since you apparently can travel "through" it just like the familiar spatial dimensions) and furthermore that our perception of Time is subjective and that there is no notion of absolute time.
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posted on
08/16/2007 11:08:37 AM PDT
by
jgorris
To: LibWhacker
I strongly suspect a measurement error.
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posted on
08/16/2007 11:08:59 AM PDT
by
Hacklehead
(Excessive tolerance will be the death of Western civilization.)
To: ElkGroveDan
I know what you mean. This puts a serious cramp in my scheduling issues. Being the mother of two small children requires me to be in more than one place at a time. If they can’t fix it soon they will have to pay for a personal assistant for me.
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posted on
08/16/2007 11:09:52 AM PDT
by
spotbust1
(Procrastinators of the world unite . . . . .tomorrow!!!)
To: NoControllingLegalAuthority
But all the Fifth Dimension knew about travel was ... Up Up And Away (in a balloon)
To: McGruff
Gotta be real quick with a stopwatch; get one of those German jobbies with the nice buttons.
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posted on
08/16/2007 11:10:59 AM PDT
by
MeanWestTexan
(Kol Hakavod Fred Thompson)
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