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Is it possible to reach or surpass the speed of light?

Discussion in 'Debates' started by Gietz, Feb 7, 2009.

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  1. kamage

    kamage Well-Known Member

    To my knowledge, that would basically be the case, but we do not need to be able to travel at the speed of light.

    We would just need to be capable of harnessing energy, and directing it in the right way.

    Also, I have a theory that we are not present in this dimension, but instead, we are projected in the dimension we currently see. So in this dimension, we are just merely light, so transportation would entirely be possible if that were true.
     
    kamage, Feb 8, 2009
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  2. cjdogger

    cjdogger Guest

    So it's possible but incredibley difficult
     
    cjdogger, Feb 8, 2009
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  3. Loonylion

    Loonylion Administrator Staff Member

    mobile phones, 802.11a/b/g/n and bluetooth et al all use radio waves. Mobile phones use the lowest frequencies, they have the slowest data rate and lowest data carrying capacity of the three, but the highest range. as frequency and thus data carrying speed/capacity increases, the range decreases.
     
    Loonylion, Feb 8, 2009
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  4. gaynorvader

    gaynorvader Well-Known Member

    It's probably not impossible to travel equal to or greater than the speed of light, but it's almost certainly impossible to do it using any conventional means of acceleration.
     
    gaynorvader, Feb 8, 2009
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  5. cjdogger

    cjdogger Guest

    I see... So even if we could move like that it would most likely be unefficient
     
    cjdogger, Feb 8, 2009
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  6. Seph

    Seph Administrator Staff Member

    The real problem is that our bodies can't handle it, think of it when you ride a go-kart, when you take the turns sharply you're swung to one side, the same happens when you accelerate in a normal car etc. This is all due to our mass and forces that affect us, and since we have gravity which affects everything with a mass it's impossible to travel at those speeds because our bodies would be crushed.

    Some serious advances in technology is required before we get even close to those speeds.
     
    Seph, Feb 8, 2009
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  7. cjdogger

    cjdogger Guest

    Our internal organs would basically be liquidised
     
    cjdogger, Feb 8, 2009
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  8. Loonylion

    Loonylion Administrator Staff Member

    Crushing wouldn't be the issue, vaporisation due to the sheer amount of energy involved would be.
     
    Loonylion, Feb 8, 2009
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  9. Girogex

    Girogex Guest

    Light travels faster than sound so if we could reach the same speed as sound's perhaps that could bring us one step further to infinite speed potential.
     
    Girogex, Feb 8, 2009
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  10. Loonylion

    Loonylion Administrator Staff Member

    we broke the speed of sound decades ago, concorde was faster than sound.
     
    Loonylion, Feb 8, 2009
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  11. Girogex

    Girogex Guest

    Yeah but the Concorde is not in commission anymore.
     
    Girogex, Feb 8, 2009
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  12. Loonylion

    Loonylion Administrator Staff Member

    military jets can still fly supersonic, and so can some private jets.
     
    Loonylion, Feb 8, 2009
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  13. kanakacheek

    kanakacheek Well-Known Member

    But in space there is no gravity, wouldn't traveling at the speed of light be different than it is on earth?
     
    kanakacheek, Feb 9, 2009
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  14. Loonylion

    Loonylion Administrator Staff Member

    light and mass are unaffected by gravity.
     
    Loonylion, Feb 9, 2009
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  15. kamage

    kamage Well-Known Member

    Please explain why black holes "suck" in light, and causes them to be "Invisible"
     
    kamage, Feb 9, 2009
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  16. Loonylion

    Loonylion Administrator Staff Member

    the gravitational pull of a black hole is millions of times that of any other body thus it is able to exert a pull on light when light is normally unaffected.
     
    Loonylion, Feb 9, 2009
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  17. kamage

    kamage Well-Known Member

    But then, wouldn't that actually prove that light can be affected by gravity, even if it's by an unimaginable number, it's still affected by it, right?
     
    kamage, Feb 9, 2009
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  18. Loonylion

    Loonylion Administrator Staff Member

    it is only affected by extreme gravitational forces from black holes, not planetary gravitational forces.
     
    Loonylion, Feb 9, 2009
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  19. kamage

    kamage Well-Known Member

    So, theoretically speaking, if we were to contain the power of a black hole, and be able to fully harness it, it would be possible tom "bend light"?
     
    kamage, Feb 9, 2009
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  20. Loonylion

    Loonylion Administrator Staff Member

    theoretically yes. Practically, the only way of making light change direction is reflection or refraction.
     
    Loonylion, Feb 9, 2009
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