SuperSupra Posted December 22, 2005 Share Posted December 22, 2005 Another one: We're English and from England, French people from France, Polish people from Poland, so why on earth are people from Holland called Dutch? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tbourner Posted December 22, 2005 Share Posted December 22, 2005 since the whole of time would instantaneous to you (at the speed of light you can get anywhere instantly from your perspective!), you would effectively be everywhere in the universe at once anyway so you wouldn't need to see where you are going anyway! That's not true, you're thinking of warp 10. and anyway you would need an infinitely powerful engine, that's a lot of work on the 2jz-gte that's for sure! This is also not true, current theories are discounting the need for infinite energy to mantain the speed of light (I always thought it was only to accelerate to the speed of light anyway?). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ian C Posted December 22, 2005 Share Posted December 22, 2005 Don't get me started on light speed again If a loaded car transporter crashes into a tree, is it classed as a multiple car pileup? Why are wipers never quite in time with the music you are playing? -Ian Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
b_have Posted December 22, 2005 Share Posted December 22, 2005 If you tied some buttered toast to the top of a cat and threw it in the air - what would happen? Just tried it, toast won, cat dead. (and it bit me while applying the duct tape) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
b_have Posted December 22, 2005 Share Posted December 22, 2005 WTF does " Mind you " actually mean? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
supra-lad Posted December 22, 2005 Share Posted December 22, 2005 Just tried it' date=' toast won, cat dead. (and it bit me while applying the duct tape)[/quote'] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chilli Posted December 22, 2005 Share Posted December 22, 2005 That's not true, you're thinking of warp 10. This is also not true, current theories are discounting the need for infinite energy to mantain the speed of light (I always thought it was only to accelerate to the speed of light anyway?). erm no and no, Unless you are speaking of theories that are incompatable with relativity etc in a nutshell, nothing with non-zero inertial mass (rest mass) can travel at the speed of light otherwise it gains infinite momentum - doh! Conservation of energy => infinite energy to get there. and anything that does -> sees the rest of the universe flash by in an instant - academic since it wouldn't be an observer capable of caring. there are always more esoteric theories, most of this is not directly provable anyway (except relativity for example, this has been demonstrated and even has to be accounted for, i.e. gps for example!). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chilli Posted December 22, 2005 Share Posted December 22, 2005 when people say "and so I turned round and said..." - why were they always facing the wrong way before hand? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tbourner Posted December 22, 2005 Share Posted December 22, 2005 in a nutshell, nothing with non-zero inertial mass (rest mass) can travel at the speed of light otherwise it gains infinite momentum - doh! Conservation of energy => infinite energy to get there. and anything that does -> sees the rest of the universe flash by in an instant - academic since it wouldn't be an observer capable of caring. Exactly! So me, in my car (more than zero inertial mass), going at the speed of light won't be everywhere at once, I'll just be going 300,000,000 m/s, and I may need infinite energy to get there but not to maintain it should I just 'become' going the speed of light! I'm not a photon. [offTopicConversation] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jake Posted December 22, 2005 Share Posted December 22, 2005 WTF does " Mind you " actually mean? and "Now then" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chilli Posted December 22, 2005 Share Posted December 22, 2005 no no no! lol completely not it. The point is (you, a car or whatever) can't get to the speed of light because it would get exponentially harder to get there... i.e. it is an impossible situation to find yourself in. You can't just suddenly be doing the speed of light, everything has a history and the history for your example is an impossible one! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tbourner Posted December 22, 2005 Share Posted December 22, 2005 Aaaah you're basing it on current technology!! Now I see your problem. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chilli Posted December 22, 2005 Share Posted December 22, 2005 lol ok well in the future anything may be possible! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tbourner Posted December 22, 2005 Share Posted December 22, 2005 I still don't believe the everywhere at once bit though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chilli Posted December 22, 2005 Share Posted December 22, 2005 lol, at 99% of the speed of light (a possible albeit very difficult situation to be in) from your perspective everything else not in your frame of reference appears 'greatly sped' up and conversly you would appear to be greatly 'slowed down'. The everything at once thing comes from the fact that the speed of light is the absolute limit and you are approaching it. kindof like 1/x -> as x tends to zero the answer tends to infinity... If you were a photon you would be everywhere at once, another way to look at it is that a photon, from it's reference point has no concept of time -> that's probably easier to imagine (maybe lol). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jake Posted December 22, 2005 Share Posted December 22, 2005 Talking of light and that, can somebody tell me why things look smaller the further away they are? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tbourner Posted December 22, 2005 Share Posted December 22, 2005 OK, I get that, I just don't believe it. The speed of light is (apparently) 299,792,458 m/s, but it's only a figure! What's to stop something going 299,792,459 m/s (if it didn't need to accelerate to it)? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CJ Posted December 22, 2005 Share Posted December 22, 2005 If a General is a higher ranking officer than a Major, then why is a major illness worse than a general illness? In that song, she'll be coming around the mountain, who is she? Do cats have belly buttons? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CJ Posted December 22, 2005 Share Posted December 22, 2005 My son just asked me a question and i haven't got a clue as to the answer. In the Matrix, Agent Smith always refers to Neo as Mr. Anderson as that was his name before he met up with Morpheus et al. But what was Mr. Anderson's first name? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
b_have Posted December 22, 2005 Share Posted December 22, 2005 Do cats have belly buttons? Mine does (but its covered in butter and duct tape) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CJ Posted December 22, 2005 Share Posted December 22, 2005 Mine does (but its covered in butter and duct tape) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tbourner Posted December 22, 2005 Share Posted December 22, 2005 My son just asked me a question and i haven't got a clue as to the answer. In the Matrix, Agent Smith always refers to Neo as Mr. Anderson as that was his name before he met up with Morpheus et al. But what was Mr. Anderson's first name? He was Thomas A Anderson. Smith actually says that when he first brings him in, something along the lines of: "you are Thomas A Anderson, computer programmer for a large company..." then goes on to winge about his 'other life' lived in computers. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tbourner Posted December 22, 2005 Share Posted December 22, 2005 "It seems that you have been living two lives. In one life, you are Thomas A. Anderson, program writer for a respectable software company. You have a social security number, you pay your taxes and you help your land lady carry out her garbage. The other life is lived in computers where you go by the hacker alias Neo, and are guilty of virtually every computer crime we have a law for, including the unauthorized use of the D.M.V. system for the removal of automobile boots." I'm actually pretty sure that's wrong, but it was the first script I came up with on google. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tbourner Posted December 22, 2005 Share Posted December 22, 2005 Aah, this one's more like it: "As you can see, we've had our eye on you for some time now, Mr. Anderson. It seems that you've been living two lives. In one life, you're Thomas A. Anderson, program writer for a respectable software company, you have a social security number, you pay your taxes, and you help your landlady carry out her garbage. The other life is lived in computers, where you go by the hacker alias Neo and are guilty of virtually every computer crime we have a law for. One of these lives has a future, and one of them does not." MatrixFreak. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CJ Posted December 22, 2005 Share Posted December 22, 2005 Much horse grassy arse Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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