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Physics is kinda cool - mind trip/stoner thought (pg. 4)
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| Kakoroto |
| quote: | Originally posted by Lumps
The closest star to our own is approx. 200 light years away, so if there is intelligent life on a planet orbiting this star (personally, I believe there is much within our milky way) and they were observing earth with powerful telescopes, the light from earth would have taken 200 years to get there, so what they would be watching is like Whitney inventing the cotton gin, or maybe even the Civil War. |
False, the closest star(alpha centauri or "the dog star") is 2.4 light years away, look it up. |
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| electronicmaji2 |
i have gas
that was caused by physics
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| Kakoroto |
| One more thing...Why does everyone have to associate someone who provokes a perplexing thought and actually uses their head for once as someone who potentially uses drugs?? It seriously is starting to drive me berzerk. |
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| Halcyon+On+On |
| You mean, into a drug-filled rage? |
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| lwigii |
PIcking up on your first theory.....
It would be impossible to see into the past, unless you could travel faster than the speed of light, which is, of course impossible, as this is 'natures speed limit'.
Sorry to spoil the moment, but was an interesting read and I had to think about it a couple of times. |
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| Exodus17 |
heh, so yea maybe some is alittle far fetched and physically impossible.... its more of a "what if" concept
| quote: | Originally posted by Boomer187
....when you look at stars, that is not really where they are. As the light from each star travels through space it is pulled and pushed by the gravity of stars it is passing by. so it refracts the light making it appear in a different location. |
that ones pretty cool
| quote: | Originally posted by ::TranceVanDyk::
does time really exist? |
i had a really long talk over this one with a buddy of mine - Does time exist? what is time? then he throws this one at me...
If tomorrow is coming, then where did yesterday go? :crazy: |
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| Phil raa |
| quote: | Originally posted by Boomer187
and ther is no sound in teh space...z0mgz0rz |
when our ears hear a sound they are actually detecting changes in air pressure.
no air in space. no sound.
mind you, it depends what you define as "is" :conf: |
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| ::TranceVanDyk:: |
| quote: | Originally posted by Exodus17
heh, so yea maybe some is alittle far fetched and physically impossible.... its more of a "what if" concept
that ones pretty cool
i had a really long talk over this one with a buddy of mine - Does time exist? what is time? then he throws this one at me...
If tomorrow is coming, then where did yesterday go? :crazy: |
there really was no yesterday. its only in our minds that yesterday exists. we have made up this concept of time for our practical use in our daily lives. u sleep at night, u are awake during the day. u hunt in the day, u return to camp at night. u have a meeting at noon, you go home at 5 o'clock.
nature does not have time. humans do. we are able to measure our idea on time by the rotation of earth. if everything in the universe were stationary. there would be no time. time is nothing more than a measurement of movement. |
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| ::TranceVanDyk:: |
i know a lot about that theory. very interesting. the idea that all matter in the universe is made up of strings of energy that have no mass, "Anti-Matter".
but really, when i was talking about dimensions, is there really a 4th dimension? i really meant, does time really exist? which time is 4th dimension, which is why my question of time went right after that statement. as of yet, string theory is far far from being proven. so, im trying to stay in the rhelm of what we know now, and not of what we will know in the future. |
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| Kakoroto |
| www.mkaku.org This guy is the co-founder of string theory and to me the most brilliant physicist of today. |
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| Halcyon+On+On |
| quote: | Originally posted by Nou
Or im talking out of my ass... :p |
Yes.
But that doesn't mean everyone else isn't either. :haha:
As ::TranceVanDyk:: said, there is no time, there is only movement. We gauge things that we observe moving - we (somewhat arbitrarily) place a standardized scale on this movement we observe in accordance to the periodic vibration of a Cesium atom. That's it. :eek:
As such, don't deify time, because it is a construct of man. It's awfully bold to say something just doesn't exist, completely disregarding the credence that thought gives it (see Plato on this one), but just realize that time was not here before man was, and it will not exist afterwards.
Maybe.
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