MERGED: Is time travel possible?

[nonoyantoine]

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mga idol, just thinking...

i certainly believe that we can see our past but ang future wa pasad ko sure. the challenge is to build a machine na faster than light. after himo sad tag super telescope. the deploy ang craft with the super telescope and the mission is that apson ang light (like sun it takes 8mins to travel ang light niya padung earth) so if maapsan na nato ang light and using the super telescope we can view our past sa earth. sakto ba?

i need comments.hehehe idol Hellblazer pwde ba ni?

[rodsky]

the challenge is to build a machine na faster than light

Matter (and thus, humans, because we are made up of matter) cannot go faster than the speed of light. You'll get infinitely heavier and infinitely thinner (with respect to the direction of travel).

As charged particles are pushed up near the present speed of light they grow heavier and more and more energy input is required to gain a smaller and smaller increment of increased velocity. At the Stanford Linear Accelerator (SLAC), electrons injected in the accelerator reach 99.999% of the velocity of light in the first few feet of travel, and then they ride traveling radio waves for two miles down a long evacuated pipe, gaining virtually no additional speed, but mostly acquiring mass (and therefore energy).

Faster than the Speed of Light?

-RODION

[mariaClara]

Matter (and thus, humans, because we are made up of matter) cannot go faster than the speed of light. You'll get infinitely heavier and infinitely thinner (with respect to the direction of travel).

-RODION

so... dili gyud possible mu-travel greater than the speed of light?
how was it known that such reaction occurs for the superluminal?

[mariaClara]

You can only "lalis" in a truly scientific manner if:

a) There is enough evidence floating around for a practical application of the said concept and

b) People participating in the thread knows the subject matter to a high technical degree, enough to merit plausible ideas and thesis on the subject matter.

Most people in this thread cannot even understand basic celestial/orbital mechanics and THEN mag-istorya dayon about relativity, time-travel and the like.

The result? A term coined in computer science and info. tech. circles... G.I.G.O. = Garbage in, garbage out.

My point is, discussions involving little knowledge in a subject matter can become a breeding ground for sheer nonsense and utter baloney, akin to ideas like Von Daniken's "ancient astronauts" and "Nibiru", both of which, we all know, have absolutely no place in a science discussion section.

-RODION

aw mao ba?

u should have been there during the time of galileo..
katong "the making" sa physics..

[mariaClara]

I respect people who post in the Spirituality and Occult thread by not going there. Similarly, if the topic pertains truly to science I will not interfere with the said discussion, but if it borders on the absurd, I will interfere whenever I can.

-RODION

unsaon man pagka-spirituality and occult ani?
unsa man pud imong criteria?

[rodsky]

unsaon man pagka-spirituality and occult ani?
unsa man pud imong criteria?

I stand corrected. It should be moved to "Arts and Literature" under a topic devoted to "science fiction".

-RODION

[Lovely Charm]

Matter (and thus, humans, because we are made up of matter) cannot go faster than the speed of light. You'll get infinitely heavier and infinitely thinner (with respect to the direction of travel).

As charged particles are pushed up near the present speed of light they grow heavier and more and more energy input is required to gain a smaller and smaller increment of increased velocity. At the Stanford Linear Accelerator (SLAC), electrons injected in the accelerator reach 99.999% of the velocity of light in the first few feet of travel, and then they ride traveling radio waves for two miles down a long evacuated pipe, gaining virtually no additional speed, but mostly acquiring mass (and therefore energy).

Faster than the Speed of Light?

-RODION

mao na cya ang Theory of Relativity sir?

[rodsky]

mao na cya ang Theory of Relativity sir?

Only a portion of it, more specifically referred to as Special Relativity, Special Theory of Relativity or STR.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Introdu...ial_relativity

For more technical, in-depth info...
Special relativity - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

-RODION

[Lovely Charm]

Only a portion of it, more specifically referred to as Special Relativity, Special Theory of Relativity or STR.

Introduction to special relativity - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

For more technical, in-depth info...
Special relativity - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

-RODION

sir, im still 21. kanang sir, walay explanation dha na kanang dali ra masabtan para nko? at least, kanang in lay man's terms ba na cya? im not gud in technical details man gud. but i like science subjects too. i hope u cud simplify it 4 me pls sir.

[rodsky]

sir, im still 21. kanang sir, walay explanation dha na kanang dali ra masabtan para nko? at least, kanang in lay man's terms ba na cya? im not gud in technical details man gud. but i like science subjects too. i hope u cud simplify it 4 me pls sir.

The first link is already a simplified version. There are lots of other simplified explanations scattered all over the 'net. If you are really interested, all you need to do is search.

-RODION