Thinking of the speed of light keeps me up at night...

[levitate]

The constancy of the speed of light and it's implications on our perception of time and space is magnificently spooky.

Special and General Relativity - The Physics of the Universe

Reflecting upon this before going to bed keeps me up at night.

Anyone else?

 

[GzUp]

Just thinking how big the universe is leaves me at peace and at the same time

 

[THE MACHINE]

It really is incredible. Wait 1500 years from now when we have light propelled vehicles.

Got that '3516 Audi riding on the front of a light beam

 

[CHL]

 

[YvrzTrvly]

unfortunately for you universal scale physics and dimensions are too nebulous for the human mind to even comprehend so...you ultimately are just thinking 'very fast' and 'very far'

 

[Leasy]

Can we defeat the speed of light by using blackholes??? Let's say backholes lead to a different part of the universe, can't we use this form of energy to teleport across the universe? Just recently near then milky way center they seen objects spewing out of a black hole. Time cease to exist as you get near a black hole as well.


What do you guys think?

 

[Dafunkdoc_Unlimited]

Can we defeat the speed of light by using blackholes???

No. As you approach the speed of light, you become more massive and require more fuel to keep accelerating ad-infinitum.

You'd need to construct a vehicle about the size of the known Universe to get out of the known Universe........

In order to use singularities, you'd have to be able to survive 'spaghettification'. Might be possible to send an unmanned probe through one, but the physics won't allow anything other than information to pass through one as understood by Susskind and Hawking.​

 

[Leasy]

No. As you approach the speed of light, you become more massive and require more fuel to keep accelerating ad-infinitum.

You'd need to construct a vehicle about the size of the known Universe to get out of the known Universe........

In order to use singularities, you'd have to be able to survive 'spaghettification'. Might be possible to send an unmanned probe through one, but the physics won't allow anything other than information to pass through one as understood by Susskind and Hawking.​

Well damn it is like we in prison in this place breh why did the gods and goddess do this???

Think about this as well most galaxies are light years away our nearest neighbor is Alpha Centauri which is 4 light years away but then you have Sirius which I think has a abundance of life is 8 to 9 away. I just don't know how would this shyt be possible. One thing we also have to worry about is debris when traveling these high speeds.

 

[ExodusNirvana]

Cool thread

Also....#bars

 

[Serious]

@Juneya

 

[MMS]

its important to remember that our reference frame that we perceive is under forces that apply to us separate from things infinitely more massive and infinitely smaller

at the size of a photon, the world as youd see it from that size is practically empty

there was a saying in my physics classes that went: *Professor presses on wooden desk* "...no matter how hard i press on this surface, im not actually touching it"

its technically true

 

[Serious]

its important to remember that our reference frame that we perceive is under forces that apply to us separate from things infinitely more massive and infinitely smaller

at the size of a photon, the world as youd see it from that size is practically empty

there was a saying in my physics classes that went: *Professor presses on wooden desk* "...no matter how hard i press on this surface, im not actually touching it"

its technically true

So technically I'm not cheating when I'm boning other chicks, because I'm not really inside another chick.

 

[MMS]

So technically I'm not cheating when I'm boning other chicks, because I'm not really inside another chick.

youre right

 

[MMS]

another thing is in understanding forces we cant "see" is that we can only perceive what we can measure

for all we know there are forces at work that are currently undiscovered

the speed of light was determined using purely mathematics in an attempt to create a law for electromagnetism

if youre interested in the history look up James Clerk Maxwell (1861).

light as you know it is a sinusoidal change in the electric and magnetic fields along the path of the photon thus the "wave and particle" nature :cacwot:

 

[levitate]

unfortunately for you universal scale physics and dimensions are too nebulous for the human mind to even comprehend so...you ultimately are just thinking 'very fast' and 'very far'

I know, it's like your brain just hits this comprehension ceiling and just says "nope, does not compute".

Kind of like the inhabitants of 2-Dimensional Flatland attempting to envision 3-Dimensional Spaceland. (Check out Edwin Abbot's Flatland if y'all haven't already)

One of the things that I have trouble visualizing is the shape and outer-layer characteristics of the universe. I tend to think of it as an expanding balloon....but this fails because the balloon is expanding INTO something - the space around the balloon. The universe, conversely, isnt expanding into anything...it's just expanding. This makes no fukking sense to me and I can't "visualize" it. And it keeps me up at night.