Faster than the speed of light
Sep 24, 2011 | 07:06 PM
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warrenm2
"We don't serve faster than light particles in here" said the bartender.
Very good.
Sep 24, 2011 | 07:18 PM
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Trout
Carl,
no such thing as a vacumn
a partial depression over universal distances is a s good as you can get
space is not actually empty
Sep 24, 2011 | 07:31 PM
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no such thing as a vacumn
What's my Dyson then?
Sep 24, 2011 | 07:36 PM
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a hoover lol
Sep 25, 2011 | 12:01 PM
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no such thing as a vacumn
Apart from stars and planets etc. etc. what exists in between all those items, can't be air as we know it surely.
Les
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warrenm2
"We don't serve faster than light particles in here" said the bartender.
Love it !
Sep 25, 2011 | 12:18 PM
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Les
"Space" is filled with virtual particles that pop in and out of exitance as they "borrow" energy.....It's impossible to create "nothing" in the quantum world
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Sep 25, 2011 | 05:25 PM
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In quantum physics, no matter exists until you actually observe it; atoms only appear if you begin to observe and measure it.
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Apart from stars and planets etc. etc. what exists in between all those items, can't be air as we know it surely.
a small amount of various atoms, spread unevenly throughout.
no where near dense enough to comprise a complex gas like air, plus anti-mater, and the pop in, pop out of existance things i dont know anything about
but its not a complete vacum
basically all known matter, along with start debris, gas clouds,star nursies/nebulas ect
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er I think we get the fact that the hard vacuum of space does contain some particles thanks.
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In quantum physics, no matter exists until you actually observe it; atoms only appear if you begin to observe and measure it.
How does the self become aware of its existence when it has only itself to observe itself?
Sep 25, 2011 | 05:55 PM
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well thats good tony becuase i think people think a vacum is actually real in the true sense of the word.
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it does exist but in a state of quantum flux
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In quantum physics, no matter exists until you actually observe it; atoms only appear if you begin to observe and measure it.
Sep 26, 2011 | 09:50 AM
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So they have found a new particle that travels faster than light now?
Sep 26, 2011 | 09:54 AM
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So they have found a new particle that travels faster than light now?
Sep 26, 2011 | 11:44 AM
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Leslie
Apart from stars and planets etc. etc. what exists in between all those items, can't be air as we know it surely.
Don't for get the invisible, dimensionless, undetectable........DARK MATTER. this is what alledgedly makes up 83% of the mass of the universe.
Sep 26, 2011 | 12:02 PM
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no such thing as a vacumn
I thought a reduction of ambient pressure in a space can be defined as a vacuum. Doesn't have to be complete.
Les
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Don't for get the invisible, dimensionless, undetectable........DARK MATTER. this is what alledgedly makes up 83% of the mass of the universe.
Yes...allegedly!
Les
Sep 26, 2011 | 02:58 PM
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Actually the latest thinking is that the universe is made of 70% dark energy, 25% dark matter and 5% normal matter. Its believed that dark energy is opposite to gravity pushing everything apart expanding the universe.
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Actually the latest thinking is that the universe is made of 70% dark energy, 25% dark matter and 5% normal matter. Its believed that dark energy is opposite to gravity pushing everything apart expanding the universe.
All these theories are a bit like PC Plonkers trying to think of something else to moan about!
Les
Sep 27, 2011 | 12:40 PM
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im not sure why anything owuld have a 'speed limit' i would have though its all to do with energy levels.
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More accurate test - same result.
Nov 18, 2011 | 07:53 PM
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Order placed
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Nov 18, 2011 | 09:11 PM
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Leslie
Seems to me that if you have a source which is producing light in a particular direction, if you move the source in that same direction then the light waves or particles however you wish to regard them are travelling at the speed of light plus the speed at which the source is travelling, ie faster then the speed of light!
It is all "relative" of course. Can't see the problem...Seemples!
Les
That's what Michelson and Morley thought.
Nov 18, 2011 | 10:25 PM
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Will it really turn Physics on its head though, its not twice as fast, its a tiny bit, surely it would just be an adjustment and a margin rather than a rewrite ?
Nov 19, 2011 | 12:59 PM
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tony de wonderful
I think you get time dilation to compensate...or some bollox.
Thanks for yet another exciting explanatory phrase.
But can you explain what you mean by it?
Les
