Cool article, really quite mind boggling, makes me feel really insignificant, when the universe, is infinitely huge, and I think its really hard to truly understand what INFINITY really is.... heh.
~ I wish that I could understand more of this stuff

When i went to UT-Austin Wheeler was a professor of AST 309N-LIVES AND DEATHS OF STARS too bad i never got to take his class. In the Astronomy class I did take thought the professor was a graduate of Oxford and one of his good friends there was Stephen Hawking.

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Originally posted by DJ Mikey Mike well i would imagine we would need to find ways to explore deep space first and the only way to do that is it develop ways to break the speed of light. There are theories on how to do this, but at present they are only theories, and will remain theories for years and years to come. btw if anyone is interested in the article above, try reading books by stephen hawking. His stuff is amazing

actually, theoretically speaking, it is considered, currently, impossible to reach the speed of light, it is believed to be possible to reach the near-speed of light, it is also thought to be possible to travel at a speed greater than a speed of light. in fact, there are believed to be particles that are constantly travelling at a speed greater than the speed of light and that they have some cool properties (unfortunately i learned all this stuff 2 yrs ago and dont remember much). i think that was all einsteins theories
theres also a theory that many of you are familiar with that when an object travels at a speed of light it can travel thru time. i think, i think, it is believed that an object can only travel to the past only or to the future only at the speed of light, i dont recall much but all this stuff is fascinating indeed.

most of you prolly saw men in black. you saw the ending, and i often think what if............. thats possible tho, who knows, i dunno if anyone actually does

Fucking hell that was fascinating. My mind fells all bent now. It really does.

i only read the first couple paragraphs but i already have a recomendation for anybody who likes this kind of stuff


read Hyperspace by Michio Kaku ive read about half so far and the book is awesome.....you spring this stuff on your firends and they look at you like you have two heads....quite fun


the book is about the superstring theory and gives real world expalnations of various theoretical physics topics..it keeps you in the book, not boring by any means.....
here is a link to the techtv small bio think on dr. kaku


tech tv thingy on Kaku

ok 2 ppl. in this thread have recommended hyperspace bu michio kaku..i have heard of him and also of the book i think...ifs its not too new maybe i can find it at the local library...

apri_peel, i have never heard of any theory that says sum particles always travel faster than light??? but then im just a layman so how would i know

the faster u go, the slower time travels..and at the speed of light, time is still...so u can travel in time...thats all i know...i have one such book lying around but i left it half way thru...i'll resume now

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Originally posted by DJ Mikey Mike btw if anyone is interested in the article above, try reading books by stephen hawking. His stuff is amazing

on a funnier note, i heard he had kids "AFTER" he was a vegetable..

HOW THE FUCK CAN YOU HAVE KIDS IF YOUR A VEGETABLE?



very smart man tho, i saw videos of him in my 8th grade science class

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hmmmmmm.....interesting article, eye opening

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refresh my memory, but i think it was either emerson or thoreau who said we are merely nothing in the great cosmos

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Originally posted by AnotherWay83 ok 2 ppl. in this thread have recommended hyperspace bu michio kaku..i have heard of him and also of the book i think...ifs its not too new maybe i can find it at the local library... apri_peel, i have never heard of any theory that says sum particles always travel faster than light??? but then im just a layman so how would i know the faster u go, the slower time travels..and at the speed of light, time is still...so u can travel in time...thats all i know...i have one such book lying around but i left it half way thru...i'll resume now peace

The particles that travel faster than light are those said to be called "tachyons" yes yes (ala Star Trek). As far as Einsteinean physics goes there is no speed greater than that of the speed of light but that is in this frame of reference (general relativity...)
could the laws of physics change according to which frame of reference you are in? I dunno...have to actually FINISH Hyperspace to get more of a handle on all of this...plus I just took a course on Einstein/Darwin and the Humanities, pretty interesting.

heh just remembered a cool thing my bro's teacher told him, he said if u could sumhow manage to stand just at the event horizon of a black hole, u'd be able to see the back of your head...sumthing with how even light can't escape a black hole i think

peace

what exactly IS event horizon?

btw, theoretically, there might exist a speed faster than light, humans just have not discovered it yet

all this crazy-intersting stuff is mostly theoretical, that drives me nuts, i wish we could know somehow