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Article #353110Re: Lightspeed constant...
From: Derek Steele
Date: Thu, 06 Feb 1997 00:00
Date: Thu, 06 Feb 1997 00:00
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Scott D. Spangler wrote: > > Grant Schoep <bi...@vax1.bemidji.msus.edu> wrote in article > <32F959...@vax1.bemidji.msus.edu>... > > Scott D. Spangler wrote: > > > > > > Mel Matthies <mel.ma...@sasktel.sk.ca> wrote in article > > > <32F5DB...@sk.sympatico.ca>... > > > > There have been some interesting theories on tachyons. Because they > > > > travel faster than the speed of light, they mathematically travel > > > > forward or backward in time as well. Anyone who remembers their high > > > > school physics can recall the equations that you use to calculate how > > > > far an object travels given it's speed and acceleration over a given > > > > period of time. Well, if you were to turn those equations around, > you > > > > can see that time actually doesn't go forward, everthing else (the > > > > universe for lack of a better word) moves either forward or backward > in > > > > relation to time. > > > > > > The theory of Tachyons come from Einstein's gravitational equations, > which, > > > if arranged properly, show that any particles traveling faster than > light > > > travel backwards through time. This doesn't mean that the particles > > > actually exist. One problem with their existence is conservation of > mass > > > and energy and the big bang theory. Assuming the latter theory to be > > > correct, which says the universe was created from a singularity, > tachyons > > > could not exist because they would increase the net energy of the > universe. > > Um. maybe since Tacyons go backward in time, some where in the future > > the universe ceases to exist, and it converts all matter and light in to > > the energy known as Tacyons, and that travels back in time to the > > begining of the unvibers(Big Bang?) and focuses on the singularity, > > causing its original expolsion in the first place, just like Nature's > > big cycle of everything. Hehe ok this probabaly doesn't make any sense, > > but I just made it up. > > Actually, it makes pretty good sense to me. > > Perhaps time travel is possible after all. Yup!
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From: Derek Steele <Ste...@man.net> Subject: Re: Lightspeed constant... Date: 1997/02/06 Message-ID: <32FA9E7D.29DE@man.net> X-Deja-AN: 214997210 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$57f463ce@spangler> <32F95906.7691@vax1.bemidji.msus.edu> <01bc1450$faee6d40$47f463ce@spangler> mime-version: 1.0 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 (Win95; I) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit