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Post by DerGolgo » Fri Sep 23, 2011 8:16 am

I wonder if someone just messed up defining the speed of light.


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Post by Jaeger » Fri Sep 23, 2011 8:48 am

I'm not going to think about that too hard until it's proven. Otherwise it would be a miserable headache for nothing... :shock: I dunno about y'all, but my head hurts just thinking about the speed of light (SOL) thing... but faster? And what the implications might be...? Noooo no. I have enough trouble with all that quantum shit as is.

(And on a similarly reality-stretching story that I do not intend as a threadjack, but... )

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Post by piccini9 » Fri Sep 23, 2011 2:46 pm

Maybe they forgot to take into account that we are already moving at the speed of light as the universe expands away from (or into) itself?*

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Post by rolly » Fri Sep 23, 2011 3:10 pm

piccini9 wrote:Maybe they forgot to take into account that we are already moving at the speed of light as the universe expands away from (or into) itself?*

* Please bear in mind that I didn't really even go to High School. Just thinking out loud, OK?
That won't be it. This is mind-smashingly difficult to get one's head around, but the speed of light is constant in all frames of reference. What that means is if you and I set off in opposite directions, going at almost the speed of light, we would NOT appear to each other to be moving apart at faster than the speed of light, and indeed, we wouldn't be.

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Post by roadmissile » Fri Sep 23, 2011 3:41 pm

rolly wrote:the speed of light is constant in all frames of reference.
Except that now we think it has slightly increased over time, thus making time travel possible...

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Post by piccini9 » Fri Sep 23, 2011 4:37 pm

rolly wrote:
piccini9 wrote:Maybe they forgot to take into account that we are already moving at the speed of light as the universe expands away from (or into) itself?*

* Please bear in mind that I didn't really even go to High School. Just thinking out loud, OK?
That won't be it. This is mind-smashingly difficult to get one's head around, but the speed of light is constant in all frames of reference. What that means is if you and I set off in opposite directions, going at almost the speed of light, we would NOT appear to each other to be moving apart at faster than the speed of light, and indeed, we wouldn't be.
And then my head asplode.

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Re: Faster than the speed of light...

Post by Zer0 » Fri Sep 23, 2011 11:24 pm

Rev wrote:So my question for you smart people is: When will my motorcycle go faster than the speed of light, and how old will I be when I get there?
I don't know, othjer than you'll be going backwards, and you'll be younger than you are right now. Eventually you'll degenerate into Justin Beaver and then I'll just have to shoot you.
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