What Is Faster Than Light?
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[quote name=“Kevlar” post=“45362” timestamp=“1387266669”]
and it’s being carried along in space, like a raisin in a loaf of rising bread in an oven.
[/quote]Now seriously, what make raisins so special? So that space within objects act diferently than “empty space” (I dont think there is empty space, absolutely empty space in our universe…)??
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I think the big bang was actually some false starts until it 'sploded.
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[quote name=“Calem” post=“45330” timestamp=“1387257861”]
What is faster than light?
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Bad News.
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[quote name=“Kevlar” post=“45362” timestamp=“1387266669”]
[quote author=Calem link=topic=6113.msg45339#msg45339 date=1387260494]
[quote author=Kevlar link=topic=6113.msg45336#msg45336 date=1387259916]
It states that the speed of light is a constant regardless of your frame of reference…
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Some galaxies are already so far away from us, and moving away so quickly, that their light will never reach Earth. Therefore, these galaxies are traveling faster than the speed of light relative to us.
[/quote]I understand everything you’ve said with the exception of how the first and last thing seem to contradict.
So it’s a yes and a no at the same time?
Like… Technically yes but relatively no.
[/quote]I know, it’s a bit mind bending at first.
It’s all about relativity.
The speed of light is 299,792,458 m/s. This is an absolute, no matter where in the universe you are. This idea is VERY counter-intuitive at first glance, because it means that if I were moving away from you at some fraction of that speed, and you shined a flashlight at me, I would measure your beam as moving at 299,972,458 m/s, and if I reflected that light back to you with a mirror, you would measure it at 299,972,458 m/s, EVEN THOUGH we’re moving away from each other. Our motion relative to each other changes nothing about the speed of light as measured relative to each other. Yet it still takes time to travel… specifically it takes 1/299,972,458th of a second to travel 1 meter.
That means that a galaxy, as measured relative to us, can be moving away from us at a speed faster than 299,972,458 m/s. Yet to it, when it measures the speed of light, it sees 299,972,458 m/s, because from it’s frame of reference it’s standing still, That’s because it’s space itself that moving away from us. It’s the universe that’s expanding, and it’s being carried along in space, like a raisin in a loaf of rising bread in an oven.
[/quote]It’s fascinating, I’ll agree, but the idea relies on the speed of light being a constant. Scientists have been able to speed up and slow down light in the laboratory: [url=http://scienceblog.com/light.html]http://scienceblog.com/light.html[/url] Who is to say that light behaves the way we believe it to behave everywhere in the universe? Also, who is to say that light has always behaved this way? I’m not saying that I disagree, but we have no empirical evidence of either of these assumptions. Still though, fascinating stuff. Go science!
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[quote name=“MTRisner” post=“45506” timestamp=“1387299166”]
It’s fascinating, I’ll agree, but the idea relies on the speed of light being a constant. Scientists have been able to speed up and slow down light in the laboratory: [url=http://scienceblog.com/light.html]http://scienceblog.com/light.html[/url] Who is to say that light behaves the way we believe it to behave everywhere in the universe? Also, who is to say that light has always behaved this way? I’m not saying that I disagree, but we have no empirical evidence of either of these assumptions. Still though, fascinating stuff. Go science!
[/quote]Light always goes at c = 299,7blah. When they slow light down, they are inducing a delay between receiving and re-emitting. It’s slowed down by being trapped in electron energies.
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[quote name=“zerodrama” post=“45509” timestamp=“1387300125”]
Light always goes at c = 299,7blah. When they slow light down, they are inducing a delay between receiving and re-emitting. It’s slowed down by being trapped in electron energies.
[/quote]Of course. I understand the concept, my point was more eluding to the possibility that maybe we don’t have the entire puzzle figured on and that scientific discovery has historically changed the way that we view many key discoveries from the past. I feel that, as a whole, we are quick to accept and not question what’s currently being accepted as fact. I would love to see something man made travel at the speed of light (or greater). It may be impossible now, but things have been impossible in the past that we see every day. Then again, maybe I read/watch too much sci-fi. :D
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Actually, time slows down close to a mass. This is Einsteins General theory of relativity and why gravity works.
Imagine a space craft passing Earth. Because of it’s huge mass, the Earth slows down time, that slow down is reduced with the normal square of the distance from the center of mass.
If Earth is on the left, as the space ship passes, time is slower on the left.
So a straight line in space results in a curve. The craft is attracted left towards the Earth. i.e. the left side travels less, because time is slower…
The same for a humans on the ground, time goes slightly slower at your feet than your head. When you move you fall forward and walking is the act of keeping you up…
Inside materials the same effect is visible. Light can be slowed down many times, it then emerges at full speed.
A very interesting subject, when do we get on to quantum theory?
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[quote name=“wrapper0feather” post=“45526” timestamp=“1387301934”]
Actually, time slows down close to a mass. This is Einsteins General theory of relativity and why gravity works.Imagine a space craft passing Earth. Because of it’s huge mass, the Earth slows down time, that slow down is reduced with the normal square of the distance from the center of mass.
If Earth is on the left, as the space ship passes, time is slower on the left.
So a straight line in space results in a curve. The craft is attracted left towards the Earth. i.e. the left side travels less, because time is slower…
The same for a humans on the ground, time goes slightly slower at your feet than your head. When you move you fall forward and walking is the act of keeping you up…
Inside materials the same effect is visible. Light can be slowed down many times, it then emerges at full speed.
A very interesting subject, when do we get on to quantum theory?
[/quote]Energy exchanges happen freely in near 0g. That’s how we push things. Energy exchanges lose energy to gravity which results in delayed reactions so you age slower. When you get a large mass it becomes a black hole called trollbox.
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[quote name=“zerodrama” post=“45586” timestamp=“1387311205”]
Energy exchanges happen freely in near 0g. That’s how we push things. Energy exchanges lose energy to gravity which results in delayed reactions so you age slower. When you get a large mass it becomes a black hole called trollbox.
[/quote]This is true.
-GMm/r=BTC-e(trollbox)
Where G is the gravitation constant, M is the mass of the attracting body, and r is the distance between their centers…
