Science!: Spider-Man, Tut and Light Speed

Lauren Admire

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Science!: Spider-Man, Tut and Light Speed

And particles acting weird around the Big Bang!

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Jared

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So King Tut was a cripple? Well...you learn something nw ever day!
 
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Just goes to show, anytime people think they figured something out about the universe, the universe goes ahead and makes us look like idiots.

The universe is a dick...
 

CaptainCrunch

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Hahaha. Miss Klingon Empire 2008 is definitely the best one of the lot. Also, SCIENCE!
 

008Zulu_v1legacy

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Maybe the lightspeed problem can be averted with the new magnetic barriers they are trialing with tanks (the barriers reflect and repel projectiles leaving the vehicle unharmed). Still, while reflecting the relatively few hydrogen atoms you still have to deal with inertia. A sudden leap from zero to lightspeed and all that would be left are smears on the back wall.
 

cptn ricardo

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A very interesting article. It seems the laws of physics are there to be broken! Especially the law of annihilation regarding atomic particles.
 

The Random One

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Adrimor said:
Now we just need some scientists to make people realise how utterly idiotic it is to pursue space travel when we haven't even figured out how to stop killing each other over petty crap yet.
Hey, that's the very reason why I want to go to space...
 

Ghonzor

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Spider-man is possible...awesome.
Light speed travel sounds quite painful now. Ouch...just ouch.
 

Fearzone

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With this evidence I think we can safely table the motion of near light speed travel. Hey, at least we still have the warp drive. Or... maybe not.
No, that's why starships have magnetic shielding. You'd have to repel the odd meteor as well. Though FTL travel is the way to go anyway.
 

cyro_349

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Uh... we actually have a discussion on the speed of light hapenning in another thread. Just letting you know:

http://www.escapistmagazine.com/forums/read/18.176900-So-apparently-time-stops-at-the-speed-of-light
 

Phatnpround

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When antiparticles and particles exist in equal amounts, they will annihilate one another, leaving us with a whole lot of nothing, or, in physicist's terms, a whole lot of antimatter
Hey, apparently I have had this account for a while but this is my first post :p Mostly because that quote annoyed me xD. Antimatter does not equal nothingness. When matter and antimatter annihilate they release energy in the form of photons and leave nothing behind. That's kinda the point.

Also just to make sure people know: local FTL travel is impossible, no matter what. Read up on relativity. Due to length contraction and time dilation it would be possible to reach distant galaxies in a short space of time relative to you but this would require HUGE amounts of energy. Also I hope you don't mind when you come back to Earth and all your family and friends have been dead for years :p. Of course we don't know about wormholes and bending spacetime and stuff which could theoretically allow us to teleport around the place but that's mostly speculation and guesswork at the moment. Sorry to bore you all with my first post but I'm kind of a physicsy guy so that little mistake in the article made me want to post. Also, just to clarify: don't talk about local FTL travel because it just is not possible and it would take a MASSIVE re working of everything we think we know about the universe if it were.

:)
 

Formica Archonis

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Phatnpround said:
Antimatter does not equal nothingness. When matter and antimatter annihilate they release energy in the form of photons and leave nothing behind. That's kinda the point.
Aaaand I just wrote a post saying the same thing and then saw this. Exactly what bugged me about the article too.

Although there's some multiversal analogue to carbon chauvinism going on too. If there was more antimatter than matter, we'd be made of antimatter and just call it... "matter". There's nothing special about it that makes it more volatile or somehow abnormal except that its quantum numbers are shuffled a bit and therefore it annihilates whenever it comes in contact with something we think of as "normal".
 

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Adrimor said:
Now we just need some scientists to make people realise how utterly idiotic it is to pursue space travel when we haven't even figured out how to stop killing each other over petty crap yet.
That's not stupid! You're silly.