02-08-2014, 04:27 AM
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Will humans ever achieve light speed?
Possible??
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02-08-2014, 04:39 AM
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Everything seems to turn into a wave at the speed of light, so they would not be coming back.
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02-08-2014, 07:28 AM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by LAP1DOUG
Everything seems to turn into a wave at the speed of light, so they would not be coming back.
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Ahhh, but what trip!
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02-08-2014, 06:26 AM
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What were you smoking last night?
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02-08-2014, 02:41 PM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by heliguy
What were you smoking last night?
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My other two thread ideas were :
At what point does a fly turn upside down before landing on the ceiling?
Or
Does the technology and do the needed materials exist to build a light saber?
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02-10-2014, 11:46 AM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Timco
My other two thread ideas were :
At what point does a fly turn upside down before landing on the ceiling?
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Please don't forget to post this topic another day also. 
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02-08-2014, 07:32 AM
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No, because it won't be necessary (not to mention physically impossible). The distance between the stars will never be traversed by sheer speed, but there are other ways...the world of quantum mechanics is intriguing 
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02-08-2014, 07:48 AM
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Only in the movies...
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02-08-2014, 10:42 AM
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Originally Posted by particlewave
No, because it won't be necessary (not to mention physically impossible). The distance between the stars will never be traversed by sheer speed, but there are other ways...the world of quantum mechanics is intriguing |
Like in The Fly???
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02-08-2014, 09:05 AM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Timco
Possible??
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Are you in a hurry to get somewhere??
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02-08-2014, 10:01 AM
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Possible??
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No, for a simple and verifiable reason: If you look at Einstein's equation, E=MC2, as body approaches the speed of light, it will increase to infinite mass, implying that you would need a power source of infinite energy in order to push it past the speed of light, which therefore becomes a physical impossibility.
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02-08-2014, 10:16 AM
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There was a time when we believed the world was flat and that you would hit a wall as you broke through the sound barrier. What is impossible today often becomes possible as we learn more. Who know?
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02-08-2014, 10:29 AM
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Originally Posted by gj3ny
There was a time when we believed the world was flat and that you would hit a wall as you broke through the sound barrier. What is impossible today often becomes possible as we learn more. Who know?
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"Learning more" is not going to help violate the laws of physics......
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02-08-2014, 11:41 AM
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Originally Posted by JFP in PA
"Learning more" is not going to help violate the laws of physics......
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Theoretical laws?
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02-08-2014, 11:48 AM
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Originally Posted by gj3ny
Theoretical laws?
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I would hardly call Einstein's equations "theoretical"; people have been trying to prove them wrong for over a hundred and ten years, and every challenge only to end up reconfirming their validity............
Even the concepts those equations predicted way back then that were considered "wildly unrealistic dreaming", like black holes and dark energy, have come to pass.
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02-09-2014, 11:07 PM
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Originally Posted by JFP in PA
"Learning more" is not going to help violate the laws of physics......
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as per our own understanding of bare bones physics as we know so little of, perhaps. However would you agree there is more than that?!
Who wants to become a lightning?
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02-10-2014, 02:30 AM
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Originally Posted by Nine8Six
as per our own understanding of bare bones physics as we know so little of, perhaps. However would you agree there is more than that?!
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Of course..............
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02-08-2014, 11:19 AM
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There's no reason why you couldn't get so close as to be essentially the speed of light.
99.9999999999999% is possible (though would require epic amounts of energy). That said, accelerating to large fractions of the speed of light in a conventional manner is not the solution to travel large distances in cosmic terms!
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02-08-2014, 11:31 AM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by pothole
There's no reason why you couldn't get so close as to be essentially the speed of light.
99.9999999999999% is possible (though would require epic amounts of energy). That said, accelerating to large fractions of the speed of light in a conventional manner is not the solution to travel large distances in cosmic terms!
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The mathematics implies that to obtain and sustain just 50% of light speed in a vessel massive enough to be practical for inter galactic travel, the total amount of propulsive energy needed would become staggering to the point of absurdity.
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02-08-2014, 11:39 AM
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Depends on how much Plasti-Dip is needed.
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