if i could run faster than the speed of light...

[Kamikaze]

Wasn’t there once a cowboy that could shoot faster than his shadow?

 

[telectrix]

if he could possibly run that fast, he'd meet up with his previous self and vanish up his own arse hole. that would contravene newton's 4th law..... when the ---- hits the fan, the good get going.

 

[Darkwood]

I deleted the last few posts, @elsparko - this is a very interesting and mind provoking thread so let's not drag it down with crude toilet humour please.
It is a subject you may have guessed that I have an interest in as I love the complexity and mind challenging field that is quantum physics, if you really want your mind stretch then just ask and I'll add more input to keep the thread burning

 

[Darkwood]

Fascinating stuff this! Thanks particularly to Darkwood and Marconi...so, I guess wee Jenny's safe after all?

After 40yrs of been interested in the cosmology, quantum physics and general sciences I have amassed quite a nerd level knowledge of how nature works ...
There exists only one greater challenge than the Theory of Everything (ToE) for man to understand and that is a woman's mind, I went for quantum because I want to at least have a chance to understand it in my lifetime.

 

[ruston]

After 40yrs of been interested in the cosmology, quantum physics and general sciences I have amassed quite a nerd level knowledge of how nature works ...
There exists only one greater challenge than the Theory of Everything (ToE) for man to understand and that is a woman's mind, I went for quantum because I want to at least have a chance to understand it in my lifetime.

A man was walking along a Florida beach and stumbled across an old lamp. He picked it up and rubbed it, and out popped a genie.

The genie said, "OK, You released me from the lamp, blah blah blah. This is the fourth time this month, and I'm getting a little sick of these wishes so you can forget about three... You only get one wish!"

The man sat, and thought about it for a while and said, "I've always wanted to go to Hawaii, but I'm scared to fly, and I get very seasick. Could you build me a bridge to Hawaii so I can drive over there to visit?"

The genie laughed and said, "That's impossible!!!

Think of the logistics of that! How would the supports ever reach the bottom of the Pacific? Think of how much concrete -- how much steel!! No, think of another wish."

The man said, "OK, I'll try to think of a really good wish."

Finally, he said, "I've been married and divorced four times. My wives always said that I don't care and that I'm insensitive.

So, I wish that I could understand women, know how they feel inside, and what they're thinking when they give me the silent treatment. Know why they're crying, know what they really want when they say "nothing,", know how to make them truly happy."

The genie said, "Do you want that bridge to be two lanes or four

 

[pirate]

How interesting...
Delete some crazy crap about toilet humour, pontificate (eloquently) about the higher level of quantum physics, and then make a joke about the mind of a woman?
...and that's not censorship?
Well...to be fair, I didn't see the deleted content, but I would hope we could all go with the flow from time to time...there are so many threads on here that go so massively off-topic that it's possibly a very difficult task to moderate...
I do believe that some have specialist knowledge that is outwith the ken of the average contributor, but suppressing views from those who have more humour than specialist knowledge is a questionable practice...
I am here to learn...
...but not to be censored except in the case of manifest transgression.
Just saying...

 

[static zap]

Just beginning to ponder if getting ahead of your self , will have any quantum consequences.
(at that speed it will be better to look over your
shoulder , than do any option that is not a straight line )

 

[pirate]

So many responses spring to mind, Static!
I'm always getting ahead of myself...to my discomfiture, obviously!
Engage brain before opening mouth is a good rule for me!
Better to remain silent, and be thought a fool...than to speak up, and prove it beyond doubt...
One day, I'll take my own advice, if I ever get to travel at the speed of light, because by then I'll have caught up with myself...ermmm...I think?

 

[Strima]

What is this run thing you speak of? Sounds like hard work...

 

[Darkwood]

How interesting...
Delete some crazy crap about toilet humour, pontificate (eloquently) about the higher level of quantum physics, and then make a joke about the mind of a woman?
...and that's not censorship?
Well...to be fair, I didn't see the deleted content, but I would hope we could all go with the flow from time to time...there are so many threads on here that go so massively off-topic that it's possibly a very difficult task to moderate...
I do believe that some have specialist knowledge that is outwith the ken of the average contributor, but suppressing views from those who have more humour than specialist knowledge is a questionable practice...
I am here to learn...
...but not to be censored except in the case of manifest transgression.
Just saying...

This was not a censorship response it was more about stopping the thread going off course, nothing said warranted anything more like an infraction and I don't have any direct issue with what was posted but we do take posts down sometimes when they drag the level down, from experience this usually sends threads into the ground as people react and start playing the same fiddle losing the original level of conversation, I do find it a strange reaction of yours and the passion you put into your post given you didn't see the posts removed.
PS the posts on the woman's mind was just a quip based on a response from Richard Feyman a leading American physicist which I should have made clear, I enjoy humour even close to the bone stuff but like I said I only trimmed the thread to keep it on track, my quip was part of a longer thread which was on subject.

 

[elsparko]

I deleted the last few posts, @elsparko - this is a very interesting and mind provoking thread so let's not drag it down with crude toilet humour please.
It is a subject you may have guessed that I have an interest in as I love the complexity and mind challenging field that is quantum physics, if you really want your mind stretch then just ask and I'll add more input to keep the thread burning

what happens at the singularity in a black hole? if you were going faster than the gravity could pancake you could you survive?

 

[Darkwood]

@elsparko
If you want to involve our understanding of physics and how we accept it works then the answer would be totally different to hypothetical scenarios that you present, in answer your atomic structure would have been pulled into it's subatomical particles long before you got anywhere near the singularity and your speed would not be exceeding any limits you prescribe.

 

[Kamikaze]

I used to be addicted to time travel, but that’s all in the past now. Now I just listen to Queen to lighten the mood.

What has always baffled me for yonks is when you spin your head round like a disk at light speed, it moves in a rotational motion. The faster it spins, the faster it moves. But something else is happening or not happening depending on your point of view. As you're moving linearly towards the centre of your head, its motion is slowing down. And as you keep moving towards the centre, you're moving even more slowly. Until you reach the exact centre where the pattern shows your head is not rotating at all. And it doesn't matter how fast that head is spinning, its exact centre never moves. The problem does not stop here, because the outside of your head is turning faster than the inside of your head and the closer you get to the centre of rotation the slower is the rotation, which tends to zero. So as you stand in the middle of the rotation the centre of your brain, if you have one, tends to zero. So my question is, how can it be that the outside of my brain can come up with so many good ideas when in the centre there is nothing going on at all?

 

[Darkwood]

Your incorrect kam' if you are discussing the macro level then the very centre of your brain is still rotating about its axis .. you go down to the atomic level then all kinds of crazy calculations are needed.

 

[elsparko]

havent a chinese company found a way to split particles and use them to transmit information almost instantly? quantum entanglement

another thing i want to bring up is the teleporter on star trek, how i see no problem with rebuilding a biological being , how do they transmit the consciousness of the teleportee?

 

[elsparko]

China Shatters "Spooky Action at a Distance" Record, Preps for Quantum Internet - https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/china-shatters-ldquo-spooky-action-at-a-distance-rdquo-record-preps-for-quantum-internet/

im about to have some roast beef

 

[static zap]

...... split particles and use them to transmit information almost instantly? quantum entanglement

Entanglement is pretty weird , and knows if your watching.
.. Could be proof that God does not watch over
"Physics Experiments" for sure ! ...

 

[JK-Electrical]

Wasn’t there once a cowboy that could shoot faster than his shadow?

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[Darkwood]

Quantum entanglement is a very complicated subject and cannot be addressed with general logic as part of an enquisitive question, it requires a deeper understanding to comprehend the theory and why it is difficult to take in, Brian Cox made that error in one of his TV lectures by slipping into one of his own theories as oppose to what science tells us.

Quantum entanglement brings in space/time and the whole question of how our universe really works and because this counters your basic logical mind it really takes years of studying to alter your observational mind and to accept an alternative concept.

A particle been in 2 places at once and directly influence each other regardless of distance seems totally illogical but logic has to be sidetracked to appreciating the quantum world and trying to understand it.

 

[elsparko]

Quantum entanglement is a very complicated subject and cannot be addressed with general logic as part of an enquisitive question, it requires a deeper understanding to comprehend the theory and why it is difficult to take in, Brian Cox made that error in one of his TV lectures by slipping into one of his own theories as oppose to what science tells us.

Quantum entanglement brings in space/time and the whole question of how our universe really works and because this counters your basic logical mind it really takes years of studying to alter your observational mind and to accept an alternative concept.

A particle been in 2 places at once and directly influence each other regardless of distance seems totally illogical but logic has to be sidetracked to appreciating the quantum world and trying to understand it.

isnt that what they are also doing at cern along with the god particle malarky?

when confronted with theories such as these i just look up at night and think how illogical this entire thing already is, many a night ive kept myself awake pondering what was the cause of the first effect that we call the "big bang" and how did it come to where i am now

i get vertigo looking at the milky way but at the same time i cant look away