Science Abuse Posted October 26, 2009 Report Share Posted October 26, 2009 http://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/science-news/3303699/We-have-broken-speed-of-light.html# Neat.... if it's fo'real. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
smokinHawk1647545499 Posted October 26, 2009 Report Share Posted October 26, 2009 moar details needed. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sol740 Posted October 26, 2009 Report Share Posted October 26, 2009 There were a couple folks some years back who claimed to have a bigfoot carcass in a freezer. Lots of noise was made, and it turns out they made the statements to get their names in the news. A balloon was purposefully released from a home ... Well ... you get where I am going. Though if there is proof of said breaking the speed of the light, I will be genuinely excited. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CRed05 Posted October 26, 2009 Report Share Posted October 26, 2009 Stup1d einstien Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
smokinHawk1647545499 Posted October 26, 2009 Report Share Posted October 26, 2009 Stup1d einstien SURE http://img.timeinc.net/time/magazine/archive/covers/1946/1101460701_400.jpg Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ImUrOBGYN Posted October 26, 2009 Report Share Posted October 26, 2009 http://i85.photobucket.com/albums/k58/ImUrOBGYN/SpeedOfLight.jpg Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Drewhop Posted October 26, 2009 Report Share Posted October 26, 2009 http://i85.photobucket.com/albums/k58/ImUrOBGYN/SpeedOfLight.jpg This may be the only time that picture would be completely relevant to the topic. So if its true who is going to pay for all the new text books? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bobby Lee Posted October 26, 2009 Report Share Posted October 26, 2009 The objects were "up to 3 ft apart" and the speed of light 186,000 mph. To any person watching, it sure as shit would seem "instantanious." I'm not a believer. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
craig71188 Posted October 26, 2009 Report Share Posted October 26, 2009 "energetic packets of light - travelled "instantaneously" between a pair of prisms that had been moved up to 3ft apart." So light is the only thing faster than light?!?! Are they "lighter"??? (ooh, sorry) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Orion Posted October 26, 2009 Report Share Posted October 26, 2009 "For the time being, this is the only violation of special relativity that I know of." LOL. Duh. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Science Abuse Posted October 27, 2009 Author Report Share Posted October 27, 2009 LOL. Duh. Cuz a lady never tells? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Richard Cranium Posted October 27, 2009 Report Share Posted October 27, 2009 You gotta be kidding, people will believe anything these days .... "but I read it on the internet!" Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KillJoy Posted October 27, 2009 Report Share Posted October 27, 2009 KillJoy Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GonneVille Posted October 27, 2009 Report Share Posted October 27, 2009 The objects were "up to 3 ft apart" and the speed of light 186,000 mph. To any person watching, it sure as shit would seem "instantanious." I'm not a believer. Um, you think they were using the Mk1 eyeball to measure the speed of photons? I'd say they probably have something a little tiny bit miscalibrated. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RangerTurbo Posted October 27, 2009 Report Share Posted October 27, 2009 The objects were "up to 3 ft apart" and the speed of light 186,000 mph. To any person watching, it sure as shit would seem "instantanious." I'm not a believer. You fail Einstein. Speed of light is roughly 186,000 miles per second, not hour. Anyhow, to put the following sarcastic statement into perspective: Um, you think they were using the Mk1 eyeball to measure the speed of photons? and keeping this Imperial, because fuck the Metric system. 186,000mile/sec = 982,080,000 ft/sec 3ft / 982,080,000ft = 3.054 x 10e-9... or .000000003054 seconds for light to cover those 3 ft. It's generally accepted we have a cognitive eye reception time of ~0.1 seconds. Meaning it takes us 0.1 seconds to realize what we saw. So in those 0.1 seconds, light would travel a certain distance that we can calculate. 982,080,000 x .1 = 98208000 ft. (distance light travels in 0.1s) 98208000 / 3ft = 32,736,000 (how many times light will travel those 3ft from prizm to prizm) So, in the .1 seconds it takes for us to "see" light travel from one prizm to the next (if we could see that), the light would actually travel back and forth from prizm to prizm almost 33 thousand times. For proof: .1 second / .000000003054 seconds = 32,743,942 which is roughly 32,736,000. Deviation allowed due to approximate speed of light used. I think it's time we upgrade to MkII eyeballs, cause there is no way in hell we could possibly ever see that. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bobby Lee Posted October 27, 2009 Report Share Posted October 27, 2009 Wow... use your pocket protector much? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheHaze Posted October 27, 2009 Report Share Posted October 27, 2009 Wow... use your pocket protector much? ...is that supposed to be an insult? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SpaceGhost Posted October 27, 2009 Report Share Posted October 27, 2009 My STi travels this fast, sucks because I never trip the beams and can never get a slip to prove it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Science Abuse Posted October 28, 2009 Author Report Share Posted October 28, 2009 Wow... use your pocket protector much? Computers. No need for pocket protectors: no pens in pockets. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RangerTurbo Posted October 28, 2009 Report Share Posted October 28, 2009 Wow... use your pocket protector much? No, it's intelligence. Usually what someone with two first names lack. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
grease monkey Posted October 28, 2009 Report Share Posted October 28, 2009 Im no expert, but it seems intresting to think about like this.... If your throw a baseball 50mph, then lets say you're in a car... traveling 50mph, and throw said baseball, now the ball is going 100mph... right??? Now lets say you're traveling in a spaceship at the speed of light, 186,000 miles per sec. what happens if you turn on a flashlight? does the light from you're light double it's speed? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AWW$HEEET Posted October 28, 2009 Report Share Posted October 28, 2009 idk how they could even measure that type of speed. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AWW$HEEET Posted October 28, 2009 Report Share Posted October 28, 2009 oh and wheres Paul at trying to setup a dig race with these Drs' light beam? lol Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RangerTurbo Posted October 28, 2009 Report Share Posted October 28, 2009 Im no expert, but it seems intresting to think about like this.... If your throw a baseball 50mph, then lets say you're in a car... traveling 50mph, and throw said baseball, now the ball is going 100mph... right??? Now lets say you're traveling in a spaceship at the speed of light, 186,000 miles per sec. what happens if you turn on a flashlight? does the light from you're light double it's speed? Simple. A baseball's speed is variable, and relative to the speed of what you're standing on when you throw it. However, you can't throw it faster than the speed of light, or if you could, you wouldn't know as you wouldn't be able to see it. Light is a constant C, and does not vary. It also is independent of what you're taking the relative measurement from. So whether you're traveling a million miles per second, or 5 miles per second, light itself will always travel at 186,000 miles per second. Also, in terms of your baseball example. If you're in a car and throw the ball, you should be comparing the speed of the ball to the speed of the car since that is the medium from which the ball is projected from relatively. Not the ground the car is driving on. However, speed is usually based on relativity to the ground since that is our earthly constant from which most things originate from. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheHaze Posted October 28, 2009 Report Share Posted October 28, 2009 Im no expert, but it seems intresting to think about like this.... If your throw a baseball 50mph, then lets say you're in a car... traveling 50mph, and throw said baseball, now the ball is going 100mph... right??? I believe that is correct, because the ball would be thrown relative to the speed of what's throwing it. Now lets say you're traveling in a spaceship at the speed of light, 186,000 miles per sec. what happens if you turn on a flashlight? does the light from you're light double it's speed? No, because it is believed that nothing can travel faster than the speed of light. On top of that, according to Einstein, nothing with mass(i.e. your spaceship or your flashlight) can travel the speed of light. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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