jbrshmonster Posted August 16, 2007 Share Posted August 16, 2007 http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/main.jhtml?xml=/earth/2007/08/16/scispeed116.xml 'We have broken speed of light' A pair of German physicists claim to have broken the speed of light - an achievement that would undermine our entire understanding of space and time. According to Einstein's special theory of relativity, it would require an infinite amount of energy to propel an object at more than 186,000 miles per second. However, Dr Gunter Nimtz and Dr Alfons Stahlhofen, of the University of Koblenz, say they may have breached a key tenet of that theory. The pair say they have conducted an experiment in which microwave photons - energetic packets of light - travelled "instantaneously" between a pair of prisms that had been moved up to 3ft apart. Being able to travel faster than the speed of light would lead to a wide variety of bizarre consequences. For instance, an astronaut moving faster than it would theoretically arrive at a destination before leaving. The scientists were investigating a phenomenon called quantum tunnelling, which allows sub-atomic particles to break apparently unbreakable laws. Dr Nimtz told New Scientist magazine: "For the time being, this is the only violation of special relativity that I know of." what the fuck Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TIRE IRON Posted August 16, 2007 Share Posted August 16, 2007 Colonel Sandurz: Prepair ship for light speed. Dark Helmet: No, no, no. Light speed is too slow. Colonel Sandurz: Light speed is too slow? Dark Helmet: Yes. We're gonna have go right to... ludicrous speed. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shitting Posted August 16, 2007 Share Posted August 16, 2007 haha Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fist 666 Posted August 17, 2007 Share Posted August 17, 2007 awesome. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
soupBDC Posted August 17, 2007 Share Posted August 17, 2007 breached a key tenet [/color][/b]of that theory. Hurray apocalypse! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jbrshmonster Posted August 17, 2007 Author Share Posted August 17, 2007 i knew it... But by this logic, our current "reality" could be nothing more than a simulation produced by information entities. "Of course." Moravec shrugs and waves his hand as if the idea is too obvious. "In fact, the robots will re-create us any number of times, whereas the original version of our world exists, at most, only once. Therefore, statistically speaking, it's much more likely we're living in a vast simulation than in the original version. To me, the whole concept of reality is rather absurd. But while you're inside the scenario, you can't help but play by the rules. So we might as well pretend this is real - even though the chance things are as they seem is essentially negligible." And so, according to Hans Moravec, the human race is almost certainly extinct, while the world around us is just an advanced version of SimCity. from http://www.boingboing.net/2007/08/15/hans_moravec_on_livi.html Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spitfire15 Posted August 17, 2007 Share Posted August 17, 2007 God I love this shit. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MAR Posted August 17, 2007 Share Posted August 17, 2007 Colonel Sandurz: Prepair ship for light speed. Dark Helmet: No, no, no. Light speed is too slow. Colonel Sandurz: Light speed is too slow? Dark Helmet: Yes. We're gonna have go right to... ludicrous speed. omg they've gone plaid! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
~KRYLON2~ Posted August 17, 2007 Share Posted August 17, 2007 so if we are gonna travel faster then light in the future, i better start thinking of good excuses why im late for work. imagine getting written up for being a nano second late Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fatalist Posted August 17, 2007 Share Posted August 17, 2007 you're travelling faster than fucking light, which is like the fastest shit ever. if you're travelling that fast, you could "arrive" where you're going before the light reflecting off of your body(where you started) reaches the eyes of whoever happened to be around when you "left". giving the illusion that you are still there, even for an instant, when you are not dang. i'd say the key word here is "claim" Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fatalist Posted August 17, 2007 Share Posted August 17, 2007 good book to read that has to do with this subject matter. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Some1 Posted August 17, 2007 Share Posted August 17, 2007 You know I love me some black holes... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MAR Posted August 17, 2007 Share Posted August 17, 2007 for some reason whenever i see the title i think it says, "Shine on You Crazy German". Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Some1 Posted August 17, 2007 Share Posted August 17, 2007 Germans do love their pink floyd... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fun haver Posted August 17, 2007 Share Posted August 17, 2007 so i could be somewhere before the person that ive just been with realizes that im gone? weird Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jbrshmonster Posted August 26, 2007 Author Share Posted August 26, 2007 (Aug. 24) - Astronomers have stumbled upon a tremendous hole in the universe. That's got them scratching their heads about what's just not there. The cosmic blank spot has no stray stars, no galaxies, no sucking black holes, not even mysterious dark matter. It is 1 billion light years across of nothing. That's a giant expanse of nearly 6 billion trillion miles of emptiness, a University of Minnesota team announced Thursday. i'm making this "the crazy shit out there that channel zero doesn't care about thread" but what the motherfucking blood clot lot. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
unknown_urge Posted August 26, 2007 Share Posted August 26, 2007 my neighbor looks like stephen hawking Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
unknown_urge Posted August 26, 2007 Share Posted August 26, 2007 (Aug. 24) - Astronomers have stumbled upon a tremendous hole in the universe. That's got them scratching their heads about what's just not there. The cosmic blank spot has no stray stars, no galaxies, no sucking black holes, not even mysterious dark matter. It is 1 billion light years across of nothing. That's a giant expanse of nearly 6 billion trillion miles of emptiness, a University of Minnesota team announced Thursday. i'm making this "the crazy shit out there that channel zero doesn't care about thread" but what the motherfucking blood clot lot. the answer... turn it into americas garbage dump... well have it filled in no time. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Theo Huxtable. Posted August 26, 2007 Share Posted August 26, 2007 yaahh ve hav brokun ze speed of light yaah Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
"inkie" Posted August 26, 2007 Share Posted August 26, 2007 This is probably gonna end up the same way as those korean scientists who claimed they made a massive discovery in stem cells that was expected to be discovered one hundred years from now.....Oh well. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Harvey Wallbanger Posted August 26, 2007 Share Posted August 26, 2007 Where we're going, we don't need roads. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Harvey Wallbanger Posted August 26, 2007 Share Posted August 26, 2007 But seriously, I love this shit. It's fucking fascinating. Way more interesting than Amy Winehouse fighting with her boyfriend, even. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
amongst Posted August 26, 2007 Share Posted August 26, 2007 good book to read that has to do with this subject matter. the thing that trips me out about this guy is the fact that he can't use pencil and paper to do math. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Harvey Wallbanger Posted August 26, 2007 Share Posted August 26, 2007 You guys want to hear a joke I made up about Stephen Hawking? Q. What's better than winning the nobel prize in physics? A. (In SH robot/computer voice) Nothing!!! Trust me... when I tell it in real life, it's hilarious. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MOOGLE? Posted August 26, 2007 Share Posted August 26, 2007 OOOOH ITS GONNA BE TRUE Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fat ralphy Posted August 26, 2007 Share Posted August 26, 2007 this was a good show Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vanfullofretards Posted August 27, 2007 Share Posted August 27, 2007 Ummm... No it wasn't. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HAL Posted August 27, 2007 Share Posted August 27, 2007 I don't think it's a big leap to think that our theories of earth and especially the universe might be incorrect. 500 years ago it was commonly thought that the earth was flat. Undoubtedly people 500 years from now will laugh at our ideas of space. Making assumptions about space travel while having only been as far as the moon is like standing on your front step and deciding that you can't go anywhere because it's snowing and you don't have a shovel to get your car out. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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