Nothing has ever travelled at the speed of light especially light

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  1. wooleeheron

    wooleeheron Brain Damaged Lifetime Supporter

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    The same quantum bullshit that makes your computer and the internet possible, and modern civilization as we know it. Will Rogers famously complained to his manager that his audiences would only laugh at his jokes if they contained the truth. Guess what? Jokes contain the truth.
     
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    Irminsul Valkyrie

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    Oh here we go. The old "omg you don't care but you're using science to type on your phone" :tearsofjoy:
     
  3. wooleeheron

    wooleeheron Brain Damaged Lifetime Supporter

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    More like, OMG, he's criticizing quantum mechanics without saying a fucking thing. Perfect for my research. The more mindless the bullshit, the easier it is to imitate, OMG!
     
  4. Irminsul

    Irminsul Valkyrie

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    Oh, you're a dude?
     
  5. wooleeheron

    wooleeheron Brain Damaged Lifetime Supporter

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    I am a meat Popsicle.
     
  6. Irminsul

    Irminsul Valkyrie

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    Oh man I thought you were flappy flamingo. :tearsofjoy:
    Pink lips. Bahah.
     
  7. wooleeheron

    wooleeheron Brain Damaged Lifetime Supporter

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    Wrap your hot lips around my frozen Popsicle!
     
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  9. wooleeheron

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    If photons have mass they are the strangest objects known to man, always moving at the same speed in a vacuum and, according to the mathematics, experiencing isomorphic space-time as if space-time didn't even exist.
     
  10. hotwater

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    Trying to create some type of mathematical paradox in an attempt to prove light doesn't travel at the known speed of light is absurd.

    I've always been fascinated by the concept of light speed, but what I find even more incredible is the idea of faster than light speed.

    Imagine an observer traveling faster than light, could he upon reaching his destination stop and turn around, he would see his image receding, due to the fact that light from the beginning of his journey would take longer to reach him.
     
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  11. wooleeheron

    wooleeheron Brain Damaged Lifetime Supporter

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    For most practical purposes, time travel can be thought of as information normalizing the past. You could theoretically travel into the past and prevent yourself from destroying the universe, because it represents a metaphysical extreme along the same lines as a naked singularity, a perfect vacuum, or even really imagining God creating a rock so big even he can't pick it up. The idea that a paradox is merely gibberish is bullshit western logic. Paradoxes are vague, with a vague identity that defies categorization, making them metaphorical by definition, just like quantum mechanics.
     
  12. i couldn’t agree more.:smirk:
    rk
     
  13. EroticaWriter

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    Don't you mean nothing has ever been observed to travel at the speed of light, or beyond?
    And since your time alive is but a mere poofteenth of all of time that existed, how do you know?
    Your sample would appear to be hopelessly small compared to all of time that has existed and all of the universe that we have never observed.
    :)
     
  14. wooleeheron

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    Actually, physicists measure things moving faster than light all the time, they just can't prove they are measuring more than shadows. The evidence for faster than light travel includes quantum systems being over 100% efficient. Quantum mechanics are contextual, meaning instead of linear causality ruling such a system, the greater context determines the identity of its own contents. You can speculate about the greater context being causal and simply beyond our ability to determine at this time, but it contradicts even the mathematical evidence, which is progressively suggesting that all of classical mathematics and physics ultimately pan out to be either explicitly self-contradictory or tautological, and roughly 10,000-1,000,000x more inefficient, roughly 3/4 of the time. Its more efficient to use classical logic and causality in 1/4 or so of cases.

    Note that Relativity contains the glaring Simultaneity Paradox, implies that a perfect clock is impossible, and its mathematics tend to fall apart completely in extreme cases such a black hole. Every galaxy would fly apart if their rotation obeyed Newtonian mechanics or Relativity. Soon, the particle accelerators should be able to measure the Unruh Effect, and show how Relativity falls apart before you can even reach the speed of light.
     
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