Dilemma about traveling at the speed of light

[SpeedFreek]

Time dilation has been tested a number of times. The routine work carried on in particle accelerators since the 1950s, such as those at CERN, is a continuously running test of the time dilation of special relativity.<br /><br /> Experimental confirmation <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> <p><font color="#ff0000">_______________________________________________<br /></font><font size="2"><em>SpeedFreek</em></font> </p> </div>

 

[nexium]

I think you have been reading bad science. Likely there are some small errors in mainstream science, but we need to find a better alternative, before we thow out the math which has allowed many important technical advances. I generally can't explain my alternate ideas in detail. Can you give us detail of your ideas? Neil

 

[nexium]

Earth's surface is moving at about 0.9 c with respect to most everything 12 to 13 billion light years away. This is a volume millions of times larger than our local group of galaxies. Most of this speed is due to expansion of the Universe; does this matter to the alkalin theory? Neil

 

[lukman]

Summary:<br />1. Travel at speed of light is to occupy every single point in the universe at the same time. (impossible)<br />2. Warp speed is not FTL, in fact out universe is expanding at warp speed. (possible)<br />3 . <blockquote><font class="small">In reply to:</font><hr /><p> Most matter in the universe is nowhere near traveling at light speed <p><hr /></p></p></blockquote> - matter falling onto the surface of a neutron star would strike the star at 150,000 km/s, imagine how fast it will be if it was black hole.<br /> <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> </div>

 

[MeteorWayne]

Just what the heck is "warp" speed anyway?<br /><br />Can anyone provide a definition?<br /><br />Is it anything like "Ludicrous Speed"? <img src="/images/icons/smile.gif" /> <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> <p><font color="#000080"><em><font color="#000000">But the Krell forgot one thing John. Monsters. Monsters from the Id.</font></em> </font></p><p><font color="#000080">I really, really, really, really miss the "first unread post" function</font><font color="#000080"> </font></p> </div>

 

[weeman]

No, it is not as fast as Ludicrous Speed! It's not even as fast as Ridiculous Speed <img src="/images/icons/smile.gif" /> <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> <p> </p><p><strong><font color="#ff0000">Techies: We do it in the dark. </font></strong></p><p><font color="#0000ff"><strong>"Put your hand on a stove for a minute and it seems like an hour. Sit with that special girl for an hour and it seems like a minute. That's relativity.</strong><strong>" -Albert Einstein </strong></font></p> </div>

 

[qso1]

Warp speed is a Star Trek plot device to account for the Enterprise ability to go FTL. As explained to me by a fan of Star Trek, warp 2 is SOL squared, warp 3 is SOL cubed and so on.<br /><br />I didn't see the link above till I posted this but my explanation was how it was presented to me by a Trek fan. <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> <p><strong>My borrowed quote for the time being:</strong></p><p><em>There are three kinds of people in life. Those who make it happen, those who watch it happen...and those who do not know what happened.</em></p> </div>

 

[majornature]

Dragon04:<font color="purple">I can't remember who it was (maybe Carl Sagan) who pointed out that at c, you could circumnavigate the known Universe in 52 years' "ship time".</font><br /><br />Yes it was Carl Sagan. I remember watching the program called the Cosmos.<br /><br />It is assumed that time begins to warp as you approach the speed of light. With in that warp, time seems to stop.<br /><br />Personally, i think time still "ticks" even when a object has reached the speed of light.<br /><br /> <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> <font size="2" color="#14ea50"><strong><font size="1">We are born.  We live.  We experiment.  We rot.  We die.  and the whole process starts all over again!  Imagine That!</font><br /><br /><br /><img id="6e5c6b4c-0657-47dd-9476-1fbb47938264" style="width:176px;height:247px" src="http://sitelife.space.com/ver1.0/Content/images/store/14/4/6e5c6b4c-0657-47dd-9476-1fbb47938264.Large.jpg" alt="blog post photo" width="276" height="440" /><br /></strong></font> </div>

 

[lukman]

Sorry, but i am very bad in math, i am not even sure whether to ask or not, but if SOL square (C^2) = 300,000km/s * 300,000km/s = ??? SOL cube (C^3) = 300,000km/s * 300,000km/s * 300,000km/s = ??? <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> </div>

 

[lukman]

Uhh, i wish i can go back to my high school, my math is very bad, i amlost with numbers, especially with many zeros -) <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> </div>