To infinity and beyond!?

lexaal · Post by **lexaal** » Sun Sep 25, 2011 11:41 am

"Everything was better." - "What does the optimistic neutrino say?"

Duckwarrior · Post by **Duckwarrior** » Sun Sep 25, 2011 1:19 pm

Can I have your permission to send CERN a link to this thread? I mean to say, we are only eleven posts in and already we have a proposal to exploit the discovery to play internet Hearts. A Meh, time travel, big deal. A theory about where the noobs have gone wrong. Another Meh. A question that sounds like a science joke that I don't get. And a science joke that unfortunately I do get, but found the first joke funnier.

Once they know that FAO has mobilised, I'm sure they'll sleep better.

P.S. Could somebody prepare an apology for the creationist dude whose name I can't remember? Just in case it turns out that we didn't know everything about everything after all.

tsubaki_sanjuro · Post by **tsubaki_sanjuro** » Sun Sep 25, 2011 2:56 pm

as a non-physicist who nevertheless has an interest in the conquest of space, this news excites the agri

Dorjan · Post by **Dorjan** » Sun Sep 25, 2011 3:28 pm

If this is true, I'll write fancy that on the side of my cock!

Duckwarrior · Post by **Duckwarrior** » Sun Sep 25, 2011 4:39 pm

Big deal, I'll write fanc on the side of Masta's.

HSharp · Post by **HSharp** » Sun Sep 25, 2011 5:26 pm

Duckwarrior wrote:QUOTE (Duckwarrior @ Sep 25 2011, 05:39 PM) Big deal, I'll write fanc on the side of Masta's.

fwiffo · Post by **fwiffo** » Wed Sep 28, 2011 10:06 pm

if you boosted an int to FTL, even with instantaneous response time, would you be still be able to avoid asteroids? i mean if a rock got in your way, that would mean light would have to have travelled from the rock's new position to your eyes before you got there, for you to avoid it. but how can you, if you were going FTL?

Heyoka · Post by **Heyoka** » Thu Sep 29, 2011 1:03 am

I think if a particle travels faster than light, it effectively stops existing in this dimension. Thus, it may be that instead of smashing against the asteroid it just goes around. All while moving in a perfectly straight line.

Like travelling on the other side of space-time.

juckto · Post by **juckto** » Thu Sep 29, 2011 3:34 am

I feel like a bit of an idiot and I'm sure I should remember this. I mean, I did enough assignments at both high school and uni based on the assumption that it's true.

But can someone please explain to me again why things can't go faster than light? Preferrably using a non-circular argument?

MrChaos · Post by **MrChaos** » Thu Sep 29, 2011 4:22 am

juckto wrote:QUOTE (juckto @ Sep 28 2011, 09:34 PM) I feel like a bit of an idiot and I'm sure I should remember this. I mean, I did enough assignments at both high school and uni based on the assumption that it's true.

But can someone please explain to me again why things can't go faster than light? Preferrably using a non-circular argument?

QUOTE Faster-than-light (also superluminal or FTL) communications and travel refer to the propagation of information or matter faster than the speed of light. Under the special theory of relativity, a particle (that has mass) with subluminal velocity needs infinite energy to accelerate to the speed of light, although special relativity does not forbid the existence of particles that travel faster than light at all times[/quote]