Faster than the speed of light!

jflail2
jflail2 Posts: 2,868
edited August 2007 in The Clubhouse
Supposedly:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/main.jhtml?xml=/earth/2007/08/16/scispeed116.xml
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  • bobman1235
    bobman1235 Posts: 10,822
    edited August 2007
    I'll believe it when I see it... in the past.
    If you will it, dude, it is no dream.
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  • BIZILL
    BIZILL Posts: 5,432
    edited August 2007
    that'd be sweet. that way one could already have been sitting upon the toilet BEFORE the turtle head even poked itself out.

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    I have no facts to back that up, but I never let facts get in the way of my arguments.
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  • jdhdiggs
    jdhdiggs Posts: 4,305
    edited August 2007
    Eh, they've been theorizing about faster than light items before. Tachyon's and the force of gravity are two examples (Though I'm not sure if they have proven anything about the "speed" of gravity)
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  • Systems
    Systems Posts: 14,873
    edited August 2007
    Once the Vulcans arive, they might just give us the technology.
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  • MacLeod
    MacLeod Posts: 14,358
    edited August 2007
    Pretty cool but I dont know if it violates Einstein's speed limit. I think his theory was that nothing with mass could travel faster than light. Photons are light particles containing no mass.
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  • snow
    snow Posts: 4,337
    edited August 2007
    MacLeod wrote: »
    Pretty cool but I dont know if it violates Einstein's speed limit. I think his theory was that nothing with mass could travel faster than light. Photons are light particles containing no mass.
    Dammit I wanted to do some time travelling lol:D

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  • MacLeod
    MacLeod Posts: 14,358
    edited August 2007
    Even if you could go the speed of light, you still couldnt get anywhere.

    At the speed of light it would take you 4 years to get to the nearest star, 100,000 years to get to the other side of the galaxy and 2,000,000 years to get to the nearest galaxy.

    Hell it would take you 3 minutes just to get to the sun!!
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  • SKsolutions
    SKsolutions Posts: 1,820
    edited August 2007
    I'll get off at the first stop. . . straight into the sun please.
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  • bobman1235
    bobman1235 Posts: 10,822
    edited August 2007
    MacLeod wrote: »
    Even if you could go the speed of light, you still couldnt get anywhere.

    At the speed of light it would take you 4 years to get to the nearest star, 100,000 years to get to the other side of the galaxy and 2,000,000 years to get to the nearest galaxy.

    Hell it would take you 3 minutes just to get to the sun!!

    Pretty sure it's 8 minutes, not 3... the sun is 93,000,000 miles away, speed of light is 186,000 miles/second... carry the 2.... 8 and a third minutes.

    To put it in perspective, the sun could have died 7 minutes ago, and we wouldn't know it for another 60 seconds....
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  • exalted512
    exalted512 Posts: 10,735
    edited August 2007
    bobman1235 wrote: »
    Pretty sure it's 8 minutes, not 3... the sun is 93,000,000 miles away, speed of light is 186,000 miles/second... carry the 2.... 8 and a third minutes.

    To put it in perspective, the sun could have died 7 minutes ago, and we wouldn't know it for another 60 seconds....

    do you really know that off the top of your head?
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  • bobman1235
    bobman1235 Posts: 10,822
    edited August 2007
    Had to look up the 93 million miles thing. I knew the speed of light, doesnt' everyone?
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  • zombie boy 2000
    zombie boy 2000 Posts: 6,641
    edited August 2007
    Groucho Mark, Betty Boop, and Steve Guttenberg... nope.

    Everyone else?
    Yeah..
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  • DarqueKnight
    DarqueKnight Posts: 6,765
    edited August 2007
    MacLeod wrote: »
    Even if you could go the speed of light, you still couldnt get anywhere.

    At the speed of light it would take you 4 years to get to the nearest star...


    But it would only take 7 days to get to the nearest star at warp 6.;)
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  • exalted512
    exalted512 Posts: 10,735
    edited August 2007
    bobman1235 wrote: »
    Had to look up the 93 million miles thing. I knew the speed of light, doesnt' everyone?

    I remembered the number after I saw it from physics, but i was mainly referring to the distance to the sun...lol
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  • Systems
    Systems Posts: 14,873
    edited August 2007
    bobman1235 wrote: »
    Pretty sure it's 8 minutes, not 3... the sun is 93,000,000 miles away, speed of light is 186,000 miles/second... carry the 2.... 8 and a third minutes.

    To put it in perspective, the sun could have died 7 minutes ago, and we wouldn't know it for another 60 seconds....


    Doesnt it depend on the time of the year as to how close we are :):):)
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  • MacLeod
    MacLeod Posts: 14,358
    edited August 2007
    Youre right Bob. The sun is indeed 93 million miles away which would be 8.33 minutes at 186,000 mps or roughly 500 seconds.

    I couldnt remember the exact number. I just knew it was around 5 and I was too lazy to actually do any math. :D
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  • POLKOHOLIC
    POLKOHOLIC Posts: 407
    edited August 2007
    MacLeod wrote: »
    Even if you could go the speed of light, you still couldnt get anywhere.

    At the speed of light it would take you 4 years to get to the nearest star, 100,000 years to get to the other side of the galaxy and 2,000,000 years to get to the nearest galaxy.

    Hell it would take you 3 minutes just to get to the sun!!

    The sun is a star....so really it would take you 3 minutes to get to the nearest star...:cool:
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  • petrym
    petrym Posts: 1,912
    edited August 2007
    ummmm, that would be 8 minutes... see above posts.
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  • petrym
    petrym Posts: 1,912
    edited August 2007
    Silverti wrote: »
    Doesnt it depend on the time of the year as to how close we are :):):)
    Yes, we are generally closest to the Sun January 3-5 (this year the 3rd) and farthest July 4-6 (this year the 7th).
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  • MrNightly
    MrNightly Posts: 3,370
    edited August 2007
    petrym wrote: »
    Yes, we are generally closest to the Sun January 3-5 (this year the 3rd) and farthest July 4-6 (this year the 7th).

    You'd think it be the complete opposite, with the heat in the summer and such... interesting.
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  • DarqueKnight
    DarqueKnight Posts: 6,765
    edited August 2007
    The earth is closer to the sun in January, but it is tilted on its axis of rotation such that the rays of the sun do not strike the northern hemisphere as directly as during the summer months. This tilting is also the reason why the seasons between the northern and southern hemispheres are not the same.
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