No problem, man. Easy mistake to make.Abedeus said:Yeah, of course I meant mass. Forgive me, it's hard to think in Polish and use English at the same time ;p
No problem, man. Easy mistake to make.Abedeus said:Yeah, of course I meant mass. Forgive me, it's hard to think in Polish and use English at the same time ;p
The big difference between splitting the atom and travelling faster than light is that splitting the atom is not forbidden by the laws of physics.Lemon Of Life said:We split the atom. It will only be a matter of time before we achieve this, technology is advancing at an incredible rate.
I've never understood why they have so little mass when travelling that quickly. Shouldn't they, by the very theory you mentioned, have infinite mass?A13X T3h NubCak3 said:Even Photons have mass when travelling at the speed of light.
Ya know, I used to believe that bit about having no control over the data sent. It kept the universe sensible. Then a read a host of articles (I'll have to search for them later) showing how that really isn't the case, that we can can control the data. My head popped.kelsyk said:Quantum entanglement might work but has at least two serious flaws. First, we can't control whether a one or a zero is sent until after it has been sent. Second, the energy and difficulty of entangling particles increases the further away from each other they are. Meaning that either you need to entangle the particles at home and send one a sub-light speed to the destination of we need to develop much better methods for entangling particles. On the upside however, the information transfer is (as far as we can tell) instantaneous, regardless of distance. I know this because I spent a summer as a lab assistant at the Institute of Quantum Computing.Captain Blackout said:Ooo Ooo Ooo!!!!!!
We may already have FTL!
Quantum entanglement!
If I remember correctly, it's possible to send 1's and 0's a FTL speed. Ok, it's just data, but:
INTERGALACTIC EVE ONLINE!!!!!!!!!!
Personally I believe that humans will one day find ways to effectively travel faster then light. I have no idea how, but I think we they will. My reasoning is simple.
It would be AWESOME.
The universe is made of awesome stuff that allows us to do awesome things (like fly). FTL is so awesome that there must be a way for it to be possible.
Agreed. Technological ability of the human race over time has shown to increase exponentially. In the past 50 years we've done as much as most of history combined. If we can survive long enough, we will develop ways of FTL travel. Whether by altering space to achieve pseudo-FTL travel or another method.Lemon Of Life said:We split the atom. It will only be a matter of time before we achieve this, technology is advancing at an incredible rate.
I'm not buying it. One, everyone is a physicist on the net. I'm not trying to denigrate you, just pointing out that from where I sit, how do I really know you are? Two, impossible means you've found that Einstein is the be all end all. What happens when we understand the Higgs field, and then begin to manipulate it? Yeah, I might be waaay off on that point, but the real point is this: At any moment we could make a discovery that throws Einstein 'out the window', as in, his science and math are still right on but for practical purposes we have a new science and math that throw Einstein into a whole new light. Three, photons have mass? What? Source or it didn't happen. Ok, that sounded terrible. Can you link me an article explaining the mass of photons?A13X T3h NubCak3 said:REAL SCIENCE ANSWER BELOW
Im a physicist.. its impossible for a body to move faster than the speed of light. There are some principles involving close to light speed travel but you have to take into account Enistiens equation E=mc^2 where as you gain more energy you increase in MASS.. which in turn slows you down (this is really simply put... increase in E would increase M because C is constant... E being energy M being Mass and C being the speed of light 3x10^8)
Even Photons have mass when travelling at the speed of light.
Didnt you guys see Event Horizon.Koeryn said:Yes, depending on the method used.oppp7 said:Does anyone believe it is possible? If so, how would it be?Actually, the idea is that the universe IS folded, and to travel quickly from place to place, you simply go THROUGH the folds.KillerMidget said:That just reminded me of Warhammer 40K's idea, the "Warp".
I also remembered the concept of travelling short distances by "folding" the universe. I forget the details.
Err...EpicPanda said:There's also the string theory.
It states that time is like a piece of string, and to get from one spot to another, you simply fold the string together to put them next to eachother.
Actually, this was verified. I can't quote any sources, unfortunately, it was a long time ago, but scientists placed two perfectly synched clocks, one on the ground and one on the fastest supersonic jet then available. They had the jet fly around as fast as it was able (still a ridiculously small fraction of the speed of light) and when they looked at it again, the jet clock was a tiny fraction of a second behind the control clock.Datalord said:Well, einstein hypothesized that if you approach light speed, time slows down, but to my knowledge, this is only the theory that currently makes the most sense, and hasn't been verified with an experiment,
In short, we think not
They've done this experiment, without even approaching the speed of light.Datalord said:Well, einstein hypothesized that if you approach light speed, time slows down, but to my knowledge, this is only the theory that currently makes the most sense, and hasn't been verified with an experiment,
In short, we think not