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Re: Distance from main frame
« Reply #15 on: September 11, 2010, 08:24:39 PM »
It's neither, that's why when you shoot it through papers with slots it disappears.
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Re: Distance from main frame
« Reply #16 on: September 11, 2010, 08:25:33 PM »
LOL, nice try guys.  Try getting a flashlight and pointing it at the wall next to you, just TRY to measure how fast it takes light to get there... You can't, it's instant.


[bite mensa hook bait]It is only instant on our time scale in our minds. That is why we invented degrees of seconds and even thousands of degrees per second broken down into messurable quantity. Instant quite literaly taken would mean 0ms delay. That is not the case with your flash light obviously, but the delay is so small it forces us to assume it is instant.


As to travelling at the speed of light, the problem is not in reaching the speed. Technology will eventually catch up with anything physics based. The real question will be to dealing with what happens when the light you see reflecting off your body normally is unable to reach your body and bounce into your own eye.

Essentially, when we are capable of breaching the light barrier, physics as we know it now will almost certainly collapse.
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Re: Distance from main frame
« Reply #17 on: September 11, 2010, 08:27:20 PM »
Shadows regularly break the speed of light.
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Re: Distance from main frame
« Reply #18 on: September 11, 2010, 08:28:51 PM »
:D

shadows have no effect on the speed of light at all.

they do make cool bunny rabbits though
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Re: Distance from main frame
« Reply #19 on: September 11, 2010, 08:30:06 PM »
Only if the atmospheric pressure is low enough.........
Shadows regularly break the speed of light.
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Re: Distance from main frame
« Reply #20 on: September 11, 2010, 08:30:34 PM »
Only if the atmospheric pressure is low enough.........

The atmosphere is always under the pressure of one atmosphere, how could it be anything different?
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Re: Distance from main frame
« Reply #21 on: September 11, 2010, 08:33:28 PM »
If our planet were travelling at beyond the speed of light it would be quite different
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Re: Distance from main frame
« Reply #22 on: September 11, 2010, 08:34:51 PM »
You really need to change your name.   :salute

The atmosphere is always under the pressure of one atmosphere, how could it be anything different?
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Re: Distance from main frame
« Reply #23 on: September 11, 2010, 08:35:36 PM »
I wouldn't know. :p

Thought you lived in OH same as me?

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Re: Distance from main frame
« Reply #24 on: September 11, 2010, 08:38:17 PM »
You really need to change your name.   :salute

Why is that?  This is straight up high school stuff here.
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Re: Distance from main frame
« Reply #25 on: September 11, 2010, 08:40:30 PM »
You mean you actualy went to lessons? Now that is cheating.

I always knew ewe were a low down cheat mensa. You're ruining this game for everyone.
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« Reply #26 on: September 11, 2010, 09:11:25 PM »
What?  No.  I dropped out of high school sophomore year, but was studious enough to read about physics and other sciences on my own. 
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« Reply #27 on: September 11, 2010, 09:53:22 PM »
I don't care. The important thing is that you let us all think it was Guppy ruining the game when truly it was you.

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Re: Distance from main frame
« Reply #28 on: September 11, 2010, 10:10:42 PM »
As a side note, I believe physicists have succeeded in bringing light to a stop.

I did that this afternoon with the visor of my cap.  :neener:

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Re: Distance from main frame
« Reply #29 on: September 11, 2010, 10:33:40 PM »
Yeah but light doesn't have a speed limit, so it gets there instantly, this is also why nothing can go faster than light.

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