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Article #353125Re: Lightspeed constant...
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Date: Thu, 20 Feb 1997 00:00
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.... > -- > **************************************************************** > ****** ________ ** ___ ******* ___ ***************************** > ***** / ______/\ / /\ ***** / /\ *** Brian "Cobbweb" Cobb *** > **** / /\_____\/ / / / ___ / / / **************************** > *** / / / / / / / / / / / ** no...@computershoppe.com * > ** / /_/____ / /_/_/ /_/ / / ****************************** > * /________/\ /______________/ / ******************************* > * \________\/ \______________\/ ******************************** > **************************************************************** Awesome
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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> X-Deja-AN: 220636667 References: <574e67$1hb@mippet.ci.com.au> <01bbe156$56e4e8a0$2ddcdbcd@maxkilms.nidlink.com> <32A4E35B.3347@pop.erols.com> <32a52042.173533975@tcnntp.trader.com> <Pine.SOL.3.91.961204171931.15806A-100000@pollux.cc.umanitoba.ca> <585nve$1rq@saltspring.teleserve.ca> <32A7057D.7DEE@hp.com> <58qpa2$mkn@krakken.uwf.edu> <32B44230.1EC5@vax1.bemidji.msus.edu> <32B480EF.4DD1@cs.com> <32F5DBFA.6FA8@sk.sympatico.ca> <01bc1303$54d053e0$57f463ce@spangler> <3301f12c.7014877@netnews.voicenet.com> <5e26m8$dj7@Roller.ISF.Kiev.UA> <3307A019.6E95@Computershoppe.com> <33090DDE.149D@extro.ucc.su.oz.au> <330A62B6.4C64@Computershoppe.com> Organization: The University of West Florida Mime-Version: 1.0 Reply-To: us...@castaway.cc.uwf.edu Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.chips,comp.os.ms-windows.win95.misc,comp.os.ms-windows.win95.setup,comp.multimedia,comp.graphics.animation,alt.games.doom,alt.games.descent,alt.games.warcraft,comp.graphics,comp.graphics.animation,alt.fan.bill-gates,comp.os.os2.mi X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.0 (Win16; I) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit