Earth Punctured By Tiny Cosmic Missles

The Telegraph ^ | 5-12-2002 | Robert Matthews

[Balding_Eagle]

186,282mps + or - 3 (per second)

[TheLurkerX]

I always thought it was funny how photons are supposedly mass free, which would defy the laws that all other particles follow. I mean, if the speed of light rule holds, and you admit that photons have mass like everything else, then a photon traveling at light speed would have almost infinite mass, and every time you turned on a flashlight, you'd wipe out a large swath of the immediate solar system. Sounds flawed to me. Oh yeah, that article on tachyons travelling faster than light seemed to violate that principle as well, but then, I always figured tachyons had to travel faster than light, or they wouldn't appear to move backward in time. Maybe someone with a better understanding of physics can explain the inconsistencies.

[PsyOp]

There I was driving along and bang, the back tire blows out for no reason. It had to be one of these, what else could it have been.

Goodyear Eagles perhaps?

[PsyOp]

For the record: I have nothing whatever to do with that.

Well, you've certainly blown holes in a few threads! ;-]

[PsyOp]

Ok, but what if it hits one of the inhabitants of an inhabited are?

Jello!

[brat]

Could you let me know if anyone answers your question? Thanks.

[PatrickHenry]

Cloaked & lurking ...

[chilepepper]

Strangelets - sometimes also called strange-quark nuggets - are predicted to have many unusual properties, including a density about ten million million times greater than lead. Just a single pollen-size fragment is believed to weigh several tons.

My wife made some meatballs out of this stuff once...

[Cvengr]

Then again, if a group of kids with an armful of bottle-rockets in the USA coordinated with a group of similarly minded kids in the Ukraine, with an armful of Roman Candles,..by their parent's cell phone and unused ham radio, synchronized watches,......

I think I see where this is heading....

[blam]

" Basically, you split a molecule (or atom, I can never recall), and regardless of their relationship to one another, they will behave exactly alike. I believe it's involved in super string theory."

Yup. I've read 'stuff' like that too. Basically, they're traveling away from each other at about 9/10's the speed of light and if you influence one of the particles (cause it to flip with magnets) the other will do the same. Now, the question is, "what sort of communication is going on between these two" and whatever it is, it has to be traveling well above the speed of light.

There's an interesting article in this months Discover magazine by John Wheeler, titled, "Does The Universe Exist If We're Not Looking?" It deals with human conciousness influencing the future as well as the past. Interesting reading.

[blam]

"I think I see where this is heading...."

Radio waves do not travel at 900,000 MPH so, your plot would be exposed. (The time intervel between the two events would be revealing)

[Cvengr]

Radio waves might not travel that fast, but even adolescent teenagers with an armful of Roman Candles can calculate! ;^)

[edwin hubble]

Wheeler's article in Discover has a fascinating thought experiment.

A photon leaving a 10 billion light-year distant quasar has two possible (diverging and then converging) paths around a gravitational lens and a two paths are equally possible.

"Classical" quantum mechanics says that neither path is chosen until the probabilities are collapsed by observation.
Our act of observing causes the photon to "have taken" one path or another.

This is not conjecture or speculation, but well confirmed.

[Cvengr]

If such a highly abnormal velocity and momentum are implied, perhaps considering the exit point as the entrance would be more plausible.

[Lonesome in Massachussets]

Firestone tires, especially if underinflated.

[edwin hubble]

...
Ok, these stranglets are 0.1 mm in diameter and 1000 kg at 400,000 m/s
Thats 40 gigawatts in the 19 seconds it is passing through the Earth. (if all energy were consumed... which it is not)
The energy is about a quarter of the Hiroshima device.

So, what would a meteorite of the same energy look like?
If that had been a typical meteorite (of density=5 g/cm^3) of the same energy it would be 20x20x20 feet and travelling at 25000 mph.

Your reference to unobtainium, and the ease which which strangelets go through the Earth's iron core:
I guess the real-world analogy is the depleted uranium rounds going through tank armor like butter. Well, the density is an instructive analogy, but the speed isn't.

What I find interesting is the seemingly unending succession of surprises we get from nature.

[bloggerjohn]

Good Lord, with Algore coming back from the dead, don't I have Enough to worry about?

[blam]

"Our act of observing causes the photon to "have taken" one path or another."

Hence, Wheeler's speculation about the past being changed once observations are made.

[freebilly]

Ok, but what if it hits one of the inhabitants of an inhabited are?

We've just found the explanation for spontaneous combustion :^)