What I feel we should do when/if we develope Faster-Than-Light travel
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I'd feel nausea,
Intense nausea
I feel a picture is in order.
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"Whoa man, what if we like, went to space, like superfast.
And like, we looked at the world with this big telescope man, and we saw the past!
Hahaha, man that would be so cool, freaking dinosaurs man!"
[QUOTE=Ali Legend;28197878]That's a different concept.
What I'm saying is that if you were right next to the light bulb when it was switched on then surely if you move [B]away[/B] from the light source at or above the speed of light then you will never see the bulb turn on?[/QUOTE]
Oh yeah in that case that makes sense.
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Wait if you traveled to a star 10 light years away at twice the speed of light, the Earth you'd see would be how old? :psyduck:
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Ok guys, we need ideas for infinite energy!
[QUOTE=Kokopelli13;28198306]I feel a picture is in order.
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I think it depends on how many lightyears faster than light we travel.
eg
If we only travel an hour ahead of light we could turn on a lightbulb, move, and see the light an hour later.
[QUOTE=RagingHadron;28198840]I think it depends on how many lightyears faster than light we travel.
eg
If we only travel an hour ahead of light we could turn on a lightbulb, move, and see the light an hour later.[/QUOTE]
Right. It's all subject to the technology that's available.
Where would we get the Element Zero and the Relays to get from one galaxy to another
According to Einstein you can never go faster than the speed of light since the closer to the speed of light you get the slower time moves. So in a sense if you were in ship traveling near the speed of light for what to you seemed like one week could actually be 1000 years from the perspective of anyone on Earth.
But theories can be proven wrong
oh my god I was going to make a sarcastic comment about how stupid you are then I read your post and :byodood:
that is fucking genius
The mass you would accumulate would make your ship worthless.
[QUOTE=Jookia;28199564]The mass you would accumulate would make your ship worthless.[/QUOTE]
if the thread's subject is faster-than-light travel we can assume it's all hypothetical
we know it's not going to happen, but man can only dream :allears:
Yes we would be able to do this but you would need one mother fucking good telescope to see the planet.
if we went faster than light we would be at a location before anyone could see us
[QUOTE=pebkac;28198179]Pretty much this. If I calculated correctly, 1000 lightyears away Earth would cover only 2.78*10^-7 arcseconds of the sky.[/QUOTE]
Or, more accurately, 1.4266x10^-18 steradians.
what if you crash into something along the way
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i've seen car accidents at 80 mph and most of the time they're not very pretty
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now imagine that at
[B][B][B]670 616 629 mph[/B][/B][/B]
[QUOTE=Archy;28200569]what if you crash into something along the way
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i've seen car accidents at 80 mph and most of the time they're not very pretty
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now imagine that at
[B][B][B]670 616 629 mph[/B][/B][/B][/QUOTE]
you hit a dog.
dog punches a hole straight through your spacecraft.
[QUOTE=Rubs10;28197324]If we could travel faster than light, couldn't we escape the black hole we could possibly be in?[/QUOTE]
Please go on.
[QUOTE=ButtsexV2;28200870]you hit a dog.
dog punches a hole straight through your spacecraft.[/QUOTE]
not with the increased mass of the spacecraft
the dog would be there, just floating along in space minding his own business, then bam suddenly the dog is just shattered and every single particle separates and goes flying in a different direction, like instant cremation and ash-scattering except in space
Doesn't time slow down for the observer of the object moving almost the speed of light, in order to preserve the the speed of light in the first place?
[QUOTE=HazeFyer23;28198763][img_thumb]http://www.andersoninstitute.com/images/faster-than-light-travel-overview.jpg[/img_thumb]
Ok guys, we need ideas for infinite energy![/QUOTE]
Didn't you hear? People have already made free energy machines, the government is just suppressing them. :ssh:
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[QUOTE=Carbon Knight;28196876]Why not just clone dinosaurs?
I mean recreating a species through modified cloning is hard but not breaking laws of physics hard.[/QUOTE]
In this universe point A and point B are 25 miles away, in a temporary artificial universe point A and point B are 25 feet away. Simple physics can go very far.
[QUOTE=Carbon Knight;28196876]...but not breaking laws of physics hard.[/QUOTE]
Pssshhhh... I do it all the time.
It won't be happening in the next 1000 years.
Even if we would find a way to do it, we wouldn't have enough energy for it.
[QUOTE=Swebonny;28197873]The thing is if you are travelling faster than light, then you are essentially moving back in time. Can't bother to find the equation.[/QUOTE]
Travel to planet at FTL speed, go back in time. Then travel back to Earth, since you're going back in time you will go back as you were going back in time so Earth would be as your left it.
'Better be alot of coffee on that ship
As in it would only accelerate the mass of the ship forwards in time, so you would see the earth as it was whatever amount of years ago but that's relative to you. So you would be that amount of time ahead while the earth stays as you left it.
Scratch that, you need cryogenic chambers.
Plus even if it were possible to go back in time, the very notion of it creates a paradox in which it's impossible. So since you stated that you would like to go back in time you wont because you wouldn't remember as soon as you came back to earth in the present time(Or the state you left it).
You can't literally travel faster, or as fast as light. But you can create the same effect (getting from A to B):
[B]a)[/B] You can stretch space, the "space-fabric", in a way that you wouldn't have to move at all. You rather manipulate the space to "get to you".
[B]b)[/B] You can rip space, opening a wormhole.
(Wormholes and black holes might very well also be used for backwards time traveling)
Both are physically possible, but they require enourmous amounts of energy and the practical problems are over-whelming.
[B]Bonus)[/B] Simply travel close to c and time dilation will make your trip to the stars pass in seconds. Though the stars in question might have very well blown up by the time you get there (again, time dilation), that's why options a) and b) are preferable.
I watched about the same topic on Discovery, only they were talking about how if we built a train fast enough to reach the speed of light we could travel to the future. The editing and modeling on that video was awesome.
but, it would only work if we had perfectly straight and strong rails to support the train and it would have to be stretched out around the whole globe.... This will never happen
[QUOTE=HazeFyer23;28198763][img_thumb]http://www.andersoninstitute.com/images/faster-than-light-travel-overview.jpg[/img_thumb]
Ok guys, we need ideas for infinite energy![/QUOTE]
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I'll go get my torch
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