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General Forums => Aces High General Discussion => Topic started by: W7LPNRICK on September 11, 2010, 12:07:54 AM
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Does my/our physical distance from the main frame of HTC heavily effect performance....ie: if HTC had a game center in Nevada and One in West Virginia only as an example, would this improve game performance for those who would now be closer to a game Main Frame, or simply cut the number of players in half & screw everything up for everyone. Seems to me, as a lay person, that the lag time between east & west coast is quite great? This question has nothing to do with me recent computer hacker attack/Trojan Virus, although my PC is a bit screwed up right now. :headscratch:
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Read this:
http://bbs.hitechcreations.com/smf/index.php/topic,68316.0.html
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Your connection is quite literally electrons flowing through copper wire. Sometimes photons running through a glass filament. So, naturally, that would take some time longer to go longer distances. Add in that, the further you are, the more likely you'll have to pass through more routers and switching centers, each adding their own processing time into it. If you're accross an ocean, you're either running through something like the TransAtlantic Cable or up to a satellite and back, further delaying things.
So, yes.
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The distance between Boise and Grapevine adds to some 20 milliseconds to your latency. Think about us here at the other side of the Atlantic, adding 1 millisecond for every 100 km/62 miles. IMHO you should consider your connections as platinum. If you have problems with your connections, it's not because of the distance. :salute
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Your connection is quite literally electrons flowing through copper wire. Sometimes photons running through a glass filament. So, naturally, that would take some time longer to go longer distances. Add in that, the further you are, the more likely you'll have to pass through more routers and switching centers, each adding their own processing time into it. If you're accross an ocean, you're either running through something like the TransAtlantic Cable or up to a satellite and back, further delaying things.
So, yes.
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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Yeah but light doesn't have a speed limit, so it gets there instantly, this is also why nothing can go faster than light.
:huh
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And the speed of light has to do with this conversation how? :headscratch: I'm so confused.
Yeah but light doesn't have a speed limit, so it gets there instantly, this is also why nothing can go faster than light.
And just a quick note...... Light speed has a speed limit. It does not teleport instantaneously. And, I'll go you one even further..... In the vacuum of space, light reaches it's top speed.
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Yeah but light doesn't have a speed limit, so it gets there instantly, this is also why nothing can go faster than light.
Um...ever heard of E=MC^2? C=Speed of Light in a vacuum, which is 299,792,458 meters-per-second. So light does have a "speed limit," it's just a rather high one that, according to current widely accepted rules of physics, nothing can exceed. :) As a side note, I believe physicists have succeeded in bringing light to a stop.
And the speed of light has to do with this conversation how? :headscratch: I'm so confused.
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Sometimes photons running through a glass filament.
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Um...ever heard of E=MC^2? C=Speed of Light in a vacuum, which is 299,792,458 meters-per-second. So light does have a "speed limit," it's just a rather high one that, according to current widely accepted rules of physics, nothing can exceed. :)
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The OH school system works :D
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How can photon's run if they don't have legs?
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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.
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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.
hold on,let me grab a ruler.
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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.
I think I can do this, ma said I was good at fysiks and running at skool.
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The OH school system works :D
I wouldn't know. :p
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Again..... You're wrong. And not just by a little, by leaps and bounds. Let me ask you this boy...... Is light, a wave, or is it matter?
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.
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It's neither, that's why when you shoot it through papers with slots it disappears.
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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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Shadows regularly break the speed of light.
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:D
shadows have no effect on the speed of light at all.
they do make cool bunny rabbits though
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Only if the atmospheric pressure is low enough.........
Shadows regularly break the speed of light.
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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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If our planet were travelling at beyond the speed of light it would be quite different
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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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I wouldn't know. :p
Thought you lived in OH same as me?
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You really need to change your name. :salute
Why is that? This is straight up high school stuff here.
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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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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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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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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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Yeah but light doesn't have a speed limit, so it gets there instantly, this is also why nothing can go faster than light.
I am faster than light. <-- (Period)
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I now have a headache...thanks all :O
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(http://images.icanhascheezburger.com/completestore/2009/3/18/128819018755028714.jpg)
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I think these are photos of the Aces High mainframes.
In the photo below, hitech (rear) prepares to reset the Orange Arena mainframe, while Skuzzy (foreground) monitors text chat.
(http://trainers.hitechcreations.com/files/rolex/mainframe.jpg)
In this photo below, Pyro and Silat (right) look over the Mid-War Arena mainframe.
(http://trainers.hitechcreations.com/files/rolex/mainframe2.jpg)
Here we see Skuzzy adjusting the radar ring radius (RRR) of the Early-War Arena mainframe.
(http://trainers.hitechcreations.com/files/rolex/mainframe3.gif)
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I think these are photos of the Aces High mainframes.
In the photo below, hitech (rear) prepares to reset the Orange Arena mainframe, while Skuzzy (foreground) monitors text chat.
(http://trainers.hitechcreations.com/files/rolex/mainframe.jpg)
In this photo below, Pyro and Silat (right) look over the Mid-War Arena mainframe.
(http://trainers.hitechcreations.com/files/rolex/mainframe2.jpg)
Here we see Skuzzy adjusting the radar ring radius (RRR) of the Early-War Arena mainframe.
(http://trainers.hitechcreations.com/files/rolex/mainframe3.gif)
:rofl :rofl :rofl
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When you dropped out, the Atmospheric pressure was one I assume? But what measurement do you use? Bars, pascals, atm's, perhaps you are that guy using psi? Maybe you've got a barometer with 1 inch of mercury?
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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I think these are photos of the Aces High mainframes.
In the photo below, hitech (rear) prepares to reset the Orange Arena mainframe, while Skuzzy (foreground) monitors text chat.
(http://trainers.hitechcreations.com/files/rolex/mainframe.jpg)
In this photo below, Pyro and Silat (right) look over the Mid-War Arena mainframe.
(http://trainers.hitechcreations.com/files/rolex/mainframe2.jpg)
Here we see Skuzzy adjusting the radar ring radius (RRR) of the Early-War Arena mainframe.
(http://trainers.hitechcreations.com/files/rolex/mainframe3.gif)
I don't think that is Skuzzy, there was no plastic pocket protector
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What? No. I dropped out of high school sophomore year, but was studious enough to read about physics and other sciences on my own.
How long does it take light to travel from Uranus to your head?
I'm pretty sure I've very unstudiously ( ?) read somewhere that it takes years for light to travel from stars to our earth.
If you are basicly trying to say that fiber optic lines are faster than wired connections, I believe that you're right.
But instantly? I call BS, and would suggest you delve a little deeper into the subject.
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Come on 1Boner, he read all about physics............ Yet he fails to realize that if he were correct, we would all be living in total darkness.
But instantly? I call BS, and would suggest you delve a little deeper into the subject.
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hold on,let me grab a ruler.
:huh :huh You cannot measure the speed of light with a RULER!!!!!
;) Here...... you will need my stop-watch too! :rofl
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Interestingly, scientists estimate that it takes a few hundred thousand years for photons, the basic units of light, to escape the Sun's core and reach the surface. They arrive at Earth about 8-and-a-half minutes later, where we can bask in the warm glow of light waves initiated long before sunscreen was invented.
http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/sun_shine_030403.html (http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/sun_shine_030403.html)
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When you dropped out, the Atmospheric pressure was one I assume? But what measurement do you use? Bars, pascals, atm's, perhaps you are that guy using psi? Maybe you've got a barometer with 1 inch of mercury?
Torrs, I found it was one by using the ideal gas laws. Since oxygen has a mole of oxygen is 32g, it can be concluded there pressure outside is only ever at one atmosphere. However when you go deep under the ocean the pressure gets very light, because you are so far from the sky.
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Interestingly, scientists estimate that it takes a few hundred thousand years for photons, the basic units of light, to escape the Sun's core and reach the surface. They arrive at Earth about 8-and-a-half minutes later, where we can bask in the warm glow of light waves initiated long before sunscreen was invented.
http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/sun_shine_030403.html (http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/sun_shine_030403.html)
Lol? You're going to have to find a better source than space.com, any kid could have bought up that domain name and put whatever he wants on there. Find a .gov that says the same thing.
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Torrs, I found it was one by using the ideal gas laws. Since oxygen has a mole of oxygen is 32g, it can be concluded there pressure outside is only ever at one atmosphere. However when you go deep under the ocean the pressure gets very light, because you are so far from the sky.
:rofl :cry
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Sorry, that should have been "since oxygen has a mole value of 32g/mole."
edit: If necessary I could walk you through the math, LLogann.
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Lol? You're going to have to find a better source than space.com, any kid could have bought up that domain name and put whatever he wants on there. Find a .gov that says the same thing.
Seriously?? Ok...how about this then..
"The Question
(Submitted April 14, 1998)
Why does it take so long for a photon to escape from the sun? How would the amount of interactions affect this time?
The Answer
The core of the Sun is extremely hot, many millions of degrees, so electrons are stripped from their atoms. This means that there are a lot of free electrons whizzing around in the Sun. With the densities that are typical for the core of the Sun (a few gm/cm3) there will be many interactions with photons. It is the density and the effective cross section of an electron , and the average velocity of an electron (usually determined from the temperature) which determine the amount of time for an interaction (or, actually, between interactions). The size of the Sun, and the average distance a photon travels between interactions ("mean free path") determines the number of interactions (its actually proportional to the square of (radius of sun)/ (mean free path). Once we plug in the right numbers for the Sun, I get a number of about 100,000 years. I think the more "official" number is about 1 million years.
Steve Bloom
for Ask an Astrophysicist "
http://imagine.gsfc.nasa.gov/docs/ask_astro/answers/980414a.html
notice the '.gov' in the address?
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Seriously?? Ok...how about this then..
"The Question
(Submitted April 14, 1998)
Why does it take so long for a photon to escape from the sun? How would the amount of interactions affect this time?
The Answer
The core of the Sun is extremely hot, many millions of degrees, so electrons are stripped from their atoms. This means that there are a lot of free electrons whizzing around in the Sun. With the densities that are typical for the core of the Sun (a few gm/cm3) there will be many interactions with photons. It is the density and the effective cross section of an electron , and the average velocity of an electron (usually determined from the temperature) which determine the amount of time for an interaction (or, actually, between interactions). The size of the Sun, and the average distance a photon travels between interactions ("mean free path") determines the number of interactions (its actually proportional to the square of (radius of sun)/ (mean free path). Once we plug in the right numbers for the Sun, I get a number of about 100,000 years. I think the more "official" number is about 1 million years.
Steve Bloom
for Ask an Astrophysicist "
http://imagine.gsfc.nasa.gov/docs/ask_astro/answers/980414a.html
notice the '.gov' in the address?
Anything with .gov? We all know the government is ALWAYS right :lol
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Anything with .gov? We all know the government is ALWAYS right :lol
I don't particularly give any special credence to the .gov domain but he specifically asked for one...
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Lol, America? Seriously? Try the European Space Agency.
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Lol, America? Seriously? Try the European Space Agency.
right.....help me remember...how many people have they put on the moon?
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are we counting the nazi moon bases?
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See Rule #6
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ok...the headache had turned into a full blown migrane...................... ............ :banana:
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Humor Low Light blinking, Captain!
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Regarding Mensa....
I can't figure out if he's kidding, trying to win the "troll of the year" award, or genuinely as misinformed as he seems to be.
:headscratch:
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Trying to do LLogann a favor and explain proper mathematics.
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Seems to me, as a lay person, that the lag time between east & west coast is quite great?
Just so know, I play from Boise too....
Using Qwest next to "0" lag for me.
Cavalry
(http://columbianewsservice.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/03/yarnell-recruiting21.jpg)
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"number 23, put down the sledge and report to the head office. you have been warned about this before. Thank you."
Mensa, if they cant see the genius of your theories then let them be ignorant. It happens to all the great minds, the new ideas scare people. Light speed scares people. A lack of bacon is very scary to anyone. Give it time sir, they will work it out. Do not give up with the new just because the old has not caught up yet.
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Regarding Mensa....
I can't figure out if he's kidding, trying to win the "troll of the year" award, or genuinely as misinformed as he seems to be.
:headscratch:
The answer would be yes
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And the speed of light has to do with this conversation how?
Because the speed of light is what they say the signal moves at roughly before you count in other factors like the quality of the cable its going through and stuff
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The answer would be yes
:aok I see what you did there.
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However when you go deep under the ocean the pressure gets very light, because you are so far from the sky.
nice :aok
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"Stay in school kids!"
This public service announcement has been brought to you by Mensa. :aok
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"number 23, put down the sledge and report to the head office. you have been warned about this before. Thank you."
Mensa, if they cant see the genius of your theories then let them be ignorant. It happens to all the great minds, the new ideas scare people. Light speed scares people.
I wasnt afraid of light speed before....should i be? :noid Warp factor 9 captain! lets get out of this thread! :bolt:
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186,000 miles per second. no faster, no slower. that is light speed. ok, 186,282 and some change, but u get the picture :aok
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technically light can be slowed down, google metamaterials for a start and then search for the guy who has managed to stop light particals for brief moments using lazers and gasses in a lab.
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technically light can be slowed down, google metamaterials for a start and then search for the guy who has managed to stop light particals for brief moments using lazers and gasses in a lab.
you guys are too damn smart!! :furious so much for my archaic high school science memories :uhoh
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Geeeeze Mesa got 5 pages with a guy that lives under a bridge and a really tall car jack.
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you guys are too damn smart!! :furious so much for my archaic high school science memories :uhoh
school, no no i learnt this with youtube :)
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You can slow down a photon by shooting it into a Bose-Einstein condensate.
As for travelling faster then light, we would have to shift our craft into a higher dimension where the rules are different. Hyperspace anyone? :aok
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As a side note, I believe physicists have succeeded in bringing light to a stop.
Not a complete stop, but yes, they slowed down so much u can actually watch it move. Ill look for the link. Can't get in game right now.
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At the end of lessons pupils go out of school faster then anything :lol
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For strong stomachs:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sagnac_effect
P.S.:
On this there is not a clear understanding among physicists
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The distance between Boise and Grapevine adds to some 20 milliseconds to your latency. Think about us here at the other side of the Atlantic, adding 1 millisecond for every 100 km/62 miles. IMHO you should consider your connections as platinum. If you have problems with your connections, it's not because of the distance. :salute
You should upgrade to light made in the US. It travels the 100km/62milles in 330 microseconds :rofl
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Well played, Mensa. It never ceases to amaze me how much some fail to grasp simple humor. :lol
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WOW! Did I start this thread? :rofl
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:aok I see what you did there.
Were you able to see it right away or did you have to wait for the light to get to your eyes?
I think that if you were deep in the ocean in the light pressure zone, you could have measured the time it took with the ruler and stop watch offered earlier.
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(http://img835.imageshack.us/img835/5444/800pxtrollingdrawing.jpg) (http://img835.imageshack.us/i/800pxtrollingdrawing.jpg/)
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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.
Wouldn't that cause a "Light Boom"?
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:lol hmmm I have no idea. Perhaps some sort of optical explosion would happen? I can't remember, it has been years since I went above light speed.
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(http://img835.imageshack.us/img835/5444/800pxtrollingdrawing.jpg) (http://img835.imageshack.us/i/800pxtrollingdrawing.jpg/)
How have I never seen this picture? :rofl
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it has been years since I went above light speed.
:lol here i thought i was the only one!
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Were you able to see it right away or did you have to wait for the light to get to your eyes?
I think that if you were deep in the ocean in the light pressure zone, you could have measured the time it took with the ruler and stop watch offered earlier.
I can't think of anything funny to write back.
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Being serious here, that radiation glow you see in nuclear power plants is from particles traveling faster than the speed of light (in the medium water).
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The universe is expanding faster than the speed of light, so objects on the outer edges will never be visible to us, unless it slows down or *gasp* starts to collapse :neener:
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Awww man, you were doing great till this one....... That is the speed of light in empty space, or dare I say (and may have already - a vacuum). Light passes through our atmosphere at different rates depending on air density. Remember, sometimes light acts as a wave, and sometimes it acts like matter.
186,000 miles per second. no faster, no slower. that is light speed. ok, 186,282 and some change, but u get the picture :aok
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Awww man, you were doing great till this one....... That is the speed of light in empty space, or dare I say (and may have already - a vacuum). Light passes through our atmosphere at different rates depending on air density. Remember, sometimes light acts as a wave, and sometimes it acts like matter.
Which is why it looks like water on a hot dry road from a distance. :aok