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Faster than Light! |
 Aug 20 2007, 02:17 PM
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It has been said before you can not travel faster than light, nothing can. Well, there has been a few universities who claimed that have. However, even since the time of Einstein, everyone has theorized what would happened if you did travel than the speed of light? Would time go backwards? What do you think would happen?
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Aug 20 2007, 02:33 PM
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 Who's your Daddy? Group: Moderator Posts: 1,986 Joined: 13-August 07 From: Tampa Bay Area, Florida, USA Member No.: 11 |
If we are talking about instantaneous transfer of matter from point A to point B (regardless of the physical distance), than since it is instantaneous, I don't believe any time would pass at all.
I don't believe that going faster than speed of light would cause time to go backwards due to the problems with time paradoxes if one went backwards in time. -------------------- I know you think you understand what you thought I said, but I'm not sure you realize that what you heard is not what I meant!  |
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Aug 20 2007, 02:45 PM
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Advanced Venter Group: Members Posts: 154 Joined: 13-August 07 From: NEO Member No.: 14 |
How fast is instantaneous? What speed are you going? Faster than light would be 186,283 miles per second or roughly 300,000 meters per second. Everything has a speed. It's only instantaneous to our eyes. When the flashlight was invented they thought the light was instantaneous.
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Aug 20 2007, 03:04 PM
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 Distinguished Venter Group: Members Posts: 535 Joined: 13-August 07 From: Salem VA Member No.: 10 |
? : i thought it was 464680743307.086614173 Meters per second (or am I really of on my math)
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Aug 20 2007, 03:06 PM
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Who's your Daddy? Group: Moderator Posts: 1,986 Joined: 13-August 07 From: Tampa Bay Area, Florida, USA Member No.: 11 |
I'm using "instantaneous" to mean "without delay".
Even at the speed of light, there is a "delay" or measurable time difference that equates to the distance between the two points - i.e. if they are 186,000 miles apart it takes 1 second. The term, "instantaneous" would mean "no time passing" or "without delay". -------------------- I know you think you understand what you thought I said, but I'm not sure you realize that what you heard is not what I meant! |
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Aug 20 2007, 03:14 PM
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Advanced Venter Group: Members Posts: 154 Joined: 13-August 07 From: NEO Member No.: 14 |
How did you calculate that number blackspyder?
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&saf...amp;btnG=Search the speed of light = 299 792 458 m / s I do apologize, I was off as well. This post has been edited by yano: Aug 20 2007, 03:19 PM -------------------- |
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Aug 20 2007, 03:16 PM
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 T.V'S AGONY UNCLE Group: Global Moderator Posts: 1,175 Joined: 14-August 07 From: liverpool,england Member No.: 20 |
okay i have a question
[mz30 scratches head] how fast is the speed of dark? 
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Aug 20 2007, 03:19 PM
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Advanced Venter Group: Members Posts: 154 Joined: 13-August 07 From: NEO Member No.: 14 |
Same speed. The speed of dark is the light leaving the area, therefore, it would leave at the speed it entered. Which would be 300,000,000 meters per second.
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Aug 20 2007, 03:21 PM
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T.V'S AGONY UNCLE Group: Global Moderator Posts: 1,175 Joined: 14-August 07 From: liverpool,england Member No.: 20 |
QUOTE (yano @ Aug 20 2007, 09:19 PM)  Same speed. The speed of dark is the light leaving the area, therefore, it would leave at the speed it entered. Which would be 300,000,000 meters per second. damn good reply yano 
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Aug 20 2007, 03:27 PM
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Advanced Venter Group: Members Posts: 154 Joined: 13-August 07 From: NEO Member No.: 14 |
It was elementary my dear Watson.
 -or- It was relatively simple. This post has been edited by yano: Aug 20 2007, 03:27 PM -------------------- |
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Aug 20 2007, 03:56 PM
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Distinguished Venter Group: Members Posts: 535 Joined: 13-August 07 From: Salem VA Member No.: 10 |
very badly. yano (miles to inches, inches to meters)
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 Aug 20 2007, 04:09 PM
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Who's your Daddy? Group: Moderator Posts: 1,986 Joined: 13-August 07 From: Tampa Bay Area, Florida, USA Member No.: 11 |
QUOTE (yano @ Aug 20 2007, 04:19 PM) Same speed. The speed of dark is the light leaving the area, therefore, it would leave at the speed it entered. Which would be 300,000,000 meters per second. That can't be right - I find myself "in the dark" about stuff much faster! -------------------- I know you think you understand what you thought I said, but I'm not sure you realize that what you heard is not what I meant! |
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Aug 20 2007, 04:44 PM
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I think the most popular theory, which I agree with is that if you go faster than light, you become pure energy.
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Aug 20 2007, 07:31 PM
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Physics = scary stuff!
 I think if you go faster than the speed of light, you would die upon hitting a surface In all honesty, I have no idea, but I'm skeptical of these universities that claim to have outsmarted Einstein. -------------------- QUOTE(Benjamin Franklin) Some people die at 25 and aren't buried until 75. |
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Aug 21 2007, 04:25 AM
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Advanced Venter Group: Members Posts: 154 Joined: 13-August 07 From: NEO Member No.: 14 |
QUOTE (blackspyder @ Aug 20 2007, 04:56 PM) very badly. yano (miles to inches, inches to meters) huh? -------------------- |
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