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Offline Octavius

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« Reply #30 on: August 15, 2003, 05:32:45 PM »
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Wow! This stuff is the nitty gritty of reality... we may never know how things behave at that level. I read somewhere that that it is possible to shoot particles faster than the speed of light, in effect arriving at their destination before it departs. :eek:


in a vacuum?  i can walk to the fridge for a beer faster than light can move in a bose-einstein condensate :)
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Offline john9001

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« Reply #31 on: August 15, 2003, 05:53:42 PM »
i walked outside today and waves of photons attacked me, fortunately, i was wearing my photon shields and was unharmed.

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« Reply #32 on: August 15, 2003, 06:36:46 PM »
I said negligible mass, not massless ;)


If a photon manages to avoid termination with an object until the end of the universe (which means it will collide with something and terminate) then from its perspective, it just existed in more points in space during its 0 lifetime.

any particle has mass, and it is affected by gravity, this is proven by black holes sucking up anything, including photons of light.

what would *really* be interesting is to imagine what a tachyon's (which travels faster than light) perspective is... we believe time slows down to infinity when at light speed..but then how or what do these Faster than light particles ride on? they move through spacetime, but unlike at-lightspeed photons, the tachyon has gone beyond that... so what do these particles 'time' at? do they go against time (like that experiment having message arriving before it was sent)?

if they do, then they actually would terminate before being sprung into existence, going from point B to point A, but from our reference, we can only detect them at their termination point as they collide with our instruments.


spooky stuff.