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Re: Lightspeed constant...

#353125
From: user
Date: Thu, 20 Feb 1997 00:00
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Brian Cobb wrote:
> 
> Jeff Barr-David wrote:
> >
> > Brian Cobb wrote:
> > >
> > > Alexey I. Medvedev wrote:
> > > >
> > > > Bob Bell (bb...@voicenet.com) wrote:
> > > > :       About tachyons... that term just describes _theoretical_
> > > > : particles travelling faster than the speed of light.  Under Eisteinian
> > > > : complex, and _at_ the speed of light, things become undefined.
> > > >
> > > > : HOWEVER, it could still be possible for tachyons to exist.  They would
> > > > But can we detect it?
> > > > Can that type of mather interact with particles?
> > > >
> > > > Or it is information field (as some thought?)?
> > > >
> > > > :           - Bob Bell
> > > > :           bb...@voicenet.com
> > > >                                 Alexey(Malx)
> > > >
> > > > ---------------------------------------   \
> > > >  @   Word is not a color, but a picture.   \\
> > > >  V  To understand it you must draw it by yourself.
> > > > -----------------------------------------  ////
> > > >  mail-to: mal...@cad.polytech.kiev.ua --  ///
> > > >  http://194.44.128.129/~malvin/       -  //
> > >
> > >         ok, say you were traveling the same speed as a light particle. then you
> > > became faster than the light particle. wouldn't you just run into the
> > > next light particle. then the next, then the next...  How does this have
> > > anyrelation to time travel?
> > >         I think that what einstein stated was that if you ran away from a clock
> > > at the speed of light, the clock would stay still. if you ran faster
> > > than the speed of light you would run into a new light particle that
> > > took the place of the light particle you just saw.  so if you went
> > > faster than the speed of light, all you would see would be a gray void
> > > of light.  I don't know where people got the idea that if you went
> > > faster than the speed of light you would go back in time?!?
> > >         but i'm just some 16 year old kid, so what do i know...
> >
> > I think the idea is that if you could go justa little bit faster than
> > light away from the clock, you would actually be seeing older and older
> > reflected light from the clockface, so it would LOOK like like you were
> > travelling backwards through time, as the clock would APPEAR TO YOU as
> > though the hands are moving backwards. To a stationary (in relation to
> > the clock) observer, you would be seen rushing away from the clock as
> > the the just continues to tick normally.
> >
> > --
> > ****  Mater tua caligas gerit.  ****
> ok, but when you quit going faster than the speed of light, you would
> see the new light particles. so time would be the same... you wouldn't
> travel through time, you would just get a chance to look at old light
> particles....
> --
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From: user <us...@castaway.cc.uwf.edu>
Subject: Re: Lightspeed constant...
Date: 1997/02/20
Message-ID: <330CED70.493@castaway.cc.uwf.edu>
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