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Broken Speed Of Light
The speed of light was broken by two physicists, Gunter Nimtz and Alfons Stahlhofen, in Germany from the University of Koblenz. This seriously questions Einstein's theory that no object or information can move faster than the speed of light in a vacuum. An example of what could happen with this is time travel, but not like you imagine: If you went for a car trip faster than the speed of light, you'd arrive at your destination before you'd even leave, theoretically, of course. As Dr Guenter Nimtz said: "The effect cannot be used to go back in time, only to reduce the time between cause and effect a little bit."
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your stuped u dont understand
Have you ever taken a Physics course? I kinda think that you haven't. Go take one. =) It'll change your world.
We don't know that. We don't know that a negative square route exists or even that it doesn't exist. It's kind of like considering acceleration in terms of units. Distance/(Time^2) : We know what Distance is, we even know what time "is". What the heck is TIME^2? Logically it doesn't mean anything to a person, but after we analyze the meaning behind acceleration we can determine was Time^2 is. I think once we know we are looking at the square route of a negative number in real life we can start to analyze what it actually is, but for now we just don't know. So we can't say it is impossible, we can only assume that something very odd would happen.
You don't hear a loud bang, because you don't hear anything at all.
You are infact moving beyond the speed of sound.
It is, then, possible to travel faster then the speed of light from the perspective of the outside observer. By compressing space in front of a vessel and expanding it behind a vessel, you create a fairly static pocket of space where you exist. From your perspective, you may be traveling at nominal speeds or not at all (the environment outside your vessel would actually be moving, not you), while from the outside perspective, you indeed travel faster then the speed of light. This has an added advantage of survivability, since Mach 10 is pretty much as fast as you can go before dying otherwise, and 'warp speed' has none of the normal effects of acceleration. If you are thinking this is out of some space sci-fi movie, it is a concept being tested next year at the LHC.
i agree....
for example, if you run faster than light from point A (assuming the human body can bear that), then imagine yourself running away from the light from point A that's following you in the same direction. when you would stop and look towards Point A, the light that was carrying the information that you were leaving point A would get to you, and you would see a sort of image of yourself running towards you. You wouldn't travel back in time, you would just get to point B before light could tell point B that you were leaving point A.
is this correct, maybe? I don't know much about quatum theories and relativity, i'm only 15 and making use of all i have read about this so far. however, the E=mc^2 bit, if its true, i don't understand where OUR speed factors into this energy relationship. all that matters in E=mc^2 is the speed of light and your mass. does mass increase with speed, thus increasing your total energy. if it does, still, what relation does it hav with time.
please explain and tell me if my example was atleast partially logical. thanks.
By the way, this is interesting!!
say, in a straight path, and you are in a car that is faster than the speed of light in the starting line..
if you travel from the starting line to the finish line, you will arrive there faster than light, i.e., you will see instead a glimpse or a vision of yourself/the car somewhere between the starting line and the the finish line.. but the statement in the above article will be considered wrong:
you'd arrive at your destination before you'd even leave, theoretically, of course
because, what you saw was a vision or image, not the real you.. the light that was reflected from the the car in the starting point is still travelling, whilst the real car had already reached the finish line.. making you see or glimpse the past..