Most of it lost on me as well Bill, all I know is the day is 24 hrs long and the world is round. The bit between me and RAW was his Time And Relative Distance In Space, or TARDIS post. Will leave it with you as you are The Master.
Don't make us laugh, you're a smart kid Time is linear Memory's a stranger History is for fools Man is a tool in the hands Of the great God Almighty And they gave him command of a nuclear submarine Sent him back in search of the Garden of Eden
It's life Jim, but not as we know it. [video=youtube;7ZS2-4-iUJ4]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ZS2-4-iUJ4[/video]
The closer you get to the speed of light, the slower time gets, so (in theory) time can stop. The complete opposite can be experienced by reading the Borini thread.
Forgetting about jokes and stuff for a few minutes, this article just completely f**ed my mind. Absolutely mindblowing what could be out there. http://www.ba-bamail.com//View.aspx?MemberId=835852&emailid=12288&source=mobile_share& Edit: there's a load of 'god' comments underneath what is a great article, inevitably
He has put my rant the other day into pictures. Why would an omnipotent being create so much and stick us on a speck of dust in the great scheme of things. The God comments totally toasted by the scientific voices of reason.
I think that if you can gather enough speed while running round the world it is possible to disappear up your own ringpiece but would you turn inside out?
The god fearing creatures of the world will do all they can to refute scientific evidence like this, they refuse to acknowledge until proven, then when it's undeniable, they'll argue that god put it there and they don't need to prove it. Everytime I see something like this, I get more amazed by people who spend their entire lives with their faces pushed into the floor or rocking back and forwards mumbling ****.
Gravity also warps time. Einsteins Theory, was later proven by the Scientific Method of Inquiry which is as close a 'theory' to truth as your likely to have given the current understanding of our Universe. In other words time is relative to our position, mass and velocity in the Universe.
Ah, but you can't reach the speed of light, because the closer you get to it the more energy you require to accelerate further. Because of the equivalence of mass and energy (summarized in Einstein's equation E=mc2) increasing your energy increases your mass and as your mass rises, the more energy you need to accelerate further (repeat until head falls off).
Though not true faster than light travel, an interesting concept that made my brain hurt trying to read it. http://math.ucr.edu/home/baez/physics/Relativity/SR/rocket.html
Light travels at approximately 186,000 miles per second, which on the face of it seems unimaginably fast. However, in the vastness of space it would take countless years travelling at that speed even to get to relatively close by star systems...
