Supreme Cmdr Posted August 11, 2002 Report Share Posted August 11, 2002 One too many shrimps on the frigging barb? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rosko Posted August 12, 2002 Report Share Posted August 12, 2002 It's A PRAWN, fair dinkum There goes relativity!! We're all gonna die... [ 08-11-2002, 08:10 PM: Message edited by: Rosko ] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest MIKE113 Posted August 12, 2002 Report Share Posted August 12, 2002 I think I'd slow down after a 12 billion mile journey too!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Grayfox Posted August 12, 2002 Report Share Posted August 12, 2002 sheesh... not the term "Theoretical" physics... its all theory. and we're still gonna die Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CommanderJohnson Posted August 12, 2002 Report Share Posted August 12, 2002 So, does that mean that one day all light will stop moving? Ha ha, now the enviromentalists get to say how it's unfair that we use so much light when one day it'll become extinct... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chrismoney7 Posted August 12, 2002 Report Share Posted August 12, 2002 NOOOOOO Now when my BattleCruiser MK3 goes light speed it will go slower. As if it doesnt go slow enough already (cheap GALCOM engines) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Charles Lindsey Posted August 12, 2002 Report Share Posted August 12, 2002 quote:I think I'd slow down after a 12 billion mile journey too!!! Mike has it right I think. That article was poor compared to the one I saw in Yahoo news. (AP or Reuters forget which) That article expanded on the premise that it may only matter on huge scales and that a local scale (our solar system) it may matter very little if at all. I can accept that very old light would slow down and newly created light travels at the speed that has been calculated. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DraconisRex Posted August 12, 2002 Report Share Posted August 12, 2002 quote:Originally posted by TheBunny: NOOOOOO Now when my BattleCruiser MK3 goes light speed it will go slower. As if it doesnt go slow enough already (cheap GALCOM engines) Nah... If the light in everything is going slower, then so is time, and therefore, so is your apparent observation of its passage... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IceCold Posted August 12, 2002 Report Share Posted August 12, 2002 Photons are observed going slower than the universal constant of 3e8 m/s all the time. In fact, we have slowed photons to a dead stop. This reduction theory is rubbish for the maximum speed is not influenced by the present speed of photons. "Never under-estimate the power of stupid people in large groups," Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Supreme Cmdr Posted August 12, 2002 Author Report Share Posted August 12, 2002 quote:Originally posted by IceCold: Photons are observed going slower than the universal constant of 3e8 m/s all the time. In fact, we have slowed photons to a dead stop. This reduction theory is rubbish for the maximum speed is not influenced by the present speed of photons. "Never under-estimate the power of stupid people in large groups,"Exactly!! I hate kippers and sardines too! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Charles Lindsey Posted August 12, 2002 Report Share Posted August 12, 2002 I was waiting on Hector to come by and say something. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fendi Posted August 14, 2002 Report Share Posted August 14, 2002 quote:Originally posted by Supreme Cmdr: quote:Originally posted by IceCold: Photons are observed going slower than the universal constant of 3e8 m/s all the time. In fact, we have slowed photons to a dead stop. This reduction theory is rubbish for the maximum speed is not influenced by the present speed of photons. "Never under-estimate the power of stupid people in large groups,"Exactly!! I hate kippers and sardines too!I don't like squids or octopuses. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Grayfox Posted August 14, 2002 Report Share Posted August 14, 2002 quote:Originally posted by Draconis Rex: Nah... If the light in everything is going slower, then so is time, and therefore, so is your apparent observation of its passage... is that why i always forget what day it is??? like i said... theoretical physics... if thats the case, im a master of theoretical physics everytime i goto the bathroom Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shadow_Wolf33 Posted August 17, 2002 Report Share Posted August 17, 2002 *turns on the lamp* hey...good enough for me! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scorchedearth Posted August 22, 2002 Report Share Posted August 22, 2002 It was my understanding that the amazing thing for relativity to work was that the speed of light was the same no matter what the reference frame was. So if light is faster everywhere one day and then slower everywhere the next, relativity would still hold. I think this discovery is amazing but to say it "shatters relativity" is a bit premature, me thinks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Or Posted August 23, 2002 Report Share Posted August 23, 2002 I thought inflationary theory predicted that light would travel faster in the early stages of the big bang? [ 08-23-2002, 08:41 AM: Message edited by: Or ] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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