Select to expand quote

Marsbars said..

Marsbars said..
I'll give it a go on the way home from work today and let you know mate.

Sorry mate could not do it dont know what happened got to 88MPH and went back to 1955 had to get a crazy doctor to help me out apparently something wrong with my flux capacitor.

Thanks for trying,

Select to expand quote

NotWal said.. Good question. I assume the geometric relationship is tested from observations thus confirming the math and the boundary condition is inferred. That's good enough unless something weird happens at the boundaries. But there's nothing to imply such a thing so ya go with wot ya know.

I think u guessed where I was going with that haha
I presume something weird happens at the boundaries - analogy:

Absolute zero is counter intuitive. Like dropping a ball that never stops bouncing, the amplitude just gets smaller and smaller but never reaches zero - that's how I'd foresee atomic vibration as temp drops. But it doesn't, it actually has a zero point. (The fact we can't get there is irrelevant). We have got so so so damn close that it seems to be a foregone conclusion.

In the same way, to me increasing mass toward light speed fits the math at lower speeds but when very very close I reckon something weird will happen. Otherwise, how are the aliens getting here?

You have to move the entire universe to light speed for your car to get to light speed. It's all relative after all.

Have you considered running her on methanol?

It's a real guy thing, this wanting to go faster than light. You don't hear ladies talking about this, very often. Ain't many, if any.

So so what happens if you go faster, before anyone else (ha)? You get the control the universe? You get all the chicks?

Select to expand quote

azymuth said..

tryharder said..
if your doing the speed of light in a car what happens if you turn the lights on, do they still shine out the front or does the light not make it out

Your car can't travel at the speed of light, unless it has zero mass. Which I would have thought is unlikely

I know zero mass and havent ever taught my car any mass. But neither of us can travel at the speed of light. So seems education has little to do with it..

head lights would shine on yr eyes of course!

Select to expand quote

evlPanda said..
It's a real guy thing, this wanting to go faster than light. You don't hear ladies talking about this, very often. Ain't many, if any.

So so what happens if you go faster, before anyone else (ha)? You get the control the universe? You get all the chicks?

Suppose that guy really goes 2 x speed of the light with few chicks on board. Obviously, they want now to listen to some radio.
But since you are going faster than radio waves, what now happens with your music? If the music pitch will be squicky hight, low or even backward in time/ reverse?

^^^ none - cos the time dilation is sort of like an auto-correct for doppler effects.


Thats deep.

Select to expand quote

Macroscien said..

evlPanda said..
It's a real guy thing, this wanting to go faster than light. You don't hear ladies talking about this, very often. Ain't many, if any.

So so what happens if you go faster, before anyone else (ha)? You get the control the universe? You get all the chicks?

Suppose that guy really goes 2 x speed of the light with few chicks on board. Obviously, they want now to listen to some radio.
But since you are going faster than radio waves, what now happens with your music? If the music pitch will be squicky hight, low or even backward in time/ reverse?

Just point the speaker backwards and you'll meet the sound on the way around

Just watched The Most Unknown on Netflix . A clever dick scientist reckons the human brain may never be able to know everything or understand about the mysteries of the universe.
It would be like trying to teach a frog quantum mechanics. Just never going to happen. RIbbit

If only Alfred Einstein was still alive to give us the answer

If his theories are correct, then he is.

Oh easy.

The same thing that would happen if you were parked up drinking with the other boys in their Mk.5 Ford RX9 Toranas in the parking lot at Byron Bay on a disc rotating at 1,600kph orbiting a star at 108,000kph in a solar system that's orbiting the galactic center at 720,000kph in a galaxy that moving at 820,000kph around the local cluster and oh bollocks basically 2.1 million kph relative to the CBR.

Sorry, what was the question?

Select to expand quote

Kamikuza said..
Oh easy.

The same thing that would happen if you were parked up drinking with the other boys in their Mk.5 Ford RX9 Toranas in the parking lot at Byron Bay on a disc rotating at 1,600kph orbiting a star at 108,000kph in a solar system that's orbiting the galactic center at 720,000kph in a galaxy that moving at 820,000kph around the local cluster and oh bollocks basically 2.1 million kph relative to the CBR.

Sorry, what was the question?

RIbbit