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MIT researchers have created a camera which can take images so fast - one trillion of them in just a second - that it can capture light as it travels across objects.
Nothing can go faster than the speed of light, which thanks to the work of scientific legends such as Leon Foucault and Einstein, we know to be 299,792,458 metres per second in a vacuum.But developers at MIT have managed to catch up, with their camera taking so many images that, when you play them in sequence at super-low-speed, you can see a light beam as it travels from A to B.
Science: One epic failure after another, until occasionally, someone stumbles onto something useful. I do not believe that, "Nothing can go faster than the speed of light," in fact, for one, the expansion of the Big Bang was faster than the speed of light...
Science: One epic failure after another, until occasionally, someone stumbles onto something useful. I do not believe that, "Nothing can go faster than the speed of light," in fact, for one, the expansion of the Big Bang was faster than the speed of light...
Science: One epic failure after another, until occasionally, someone stumbles onto something useful. I do not believe that, "Nothing can go faster than the speed of light," in fact, for one, the expansion of the Big Bang was faster than the speed of light...
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Quoting you so when you realize your derp later you don't edit your comment and destroy all evidence of your epic failure.
Science: One epic failure after another, until occasionally, someone stumbles onto something useful. I do not believe that, "Nothing can go faster than the speed of light," in fact, for one, the expansion of the Big Bang was faster than the speed of light...
Quoting you so when you realize your derp later you don't edit your comment and destroy all evidence of your epic failure.
Having trouble with FACTS, are you?
Having trouble with FACTS, are you?
The Question
(Submitted October 30, 2003)In a article I saw that the size of the Universe was 18 Million LYs across after only 780,000 years. Could you explain how the Universe got so big after just a short amount of time? Is it relativistic in nature? I also saw an article that stated the Universe was a few kilometers across just microseconds after the "big Bang" occured. Could you explain this anomaly? Thank you.
The Answer
What you are referring to is called "Inflation." In an early time after the Big Bang, there is evidence that the universe expanded at speeds greater than light. But special relativity was not violated, because this was an expansion of SPACE and no matter or information was carried between two points at faster than light speed. General relativity allows inflation to be incorporated into Big Bang cosmology.For more on this, check out these other answers on our site:
http://imagine.gsfc.nasa.gov/docs/ask_astro/answers/970202.html
Amy C. Fredericks and Michael Loewensteinhttp://imagine.gsfc.nasa.gov/docs/ask_astro/answers/070904a.html
The Question
(Submitted October 30, 2003)In a article I saw that the size of the Universe was 18 Million LYs across after only 780,000 years. Could you explain how the Universe got so big after just a short amount of time? Is it relativistic in nature? I also saw an article that stated the Universe was a few kilometers across just microseconds after the "big Bang" occured. Could you explain this anomaly? Thank you.
The Answer
What you are referring to is called "Inflation." In an early time after the Big Bang, there is evidence that the universe expanded at speeds greater than light. But special relativity was not violated, because this was an expansion of SPACE and no matter or information was carried between two points at faster than light speed. General relativity allows inflation to be incorporated into Big Bang cosmology.For more on this, check out these other answers on our site:
http://imagine.gsfc.nasa.gov/docs/ask_astro/answers/970202.html
Amy C. Fredericks and Michael Loewensteinhttp://imagine.gsfc.nasa.gov/docs/ask_astro/answers/070904a.html
Science: One epic failure after another, until occasionally, someone stumbles onto something useful. I do not believe that, "Nothing can go faster than the speed of light," in fact, for one, the expansion of the Big Bang was faster than the speed of light...
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light moves in the universe, and nothing in the universe can go faster than light. doesn't mean the universe can't though...
Science: One epic failure after another, until occasionally, someone stumbles onto something useful. I do not believe that, "Nothing can go faster than the speed of light," in fact, for one, the expansion of the Big Bang was faster than the speed of light...
light moves in the universe, and nothing in the universe can go faster than light. doesn't mean the universe can't though...
Soooo, in the first few milliseconds after the BB, the universe did expand faster than the speed of light - but it 'really' didn't, because, well, uh, because we say so, because we have to say some fucking bullshit to explain the obvious contradictions...
FUCK OFF
Soooo, in the first few milliseconds after the BB, the universe did expand faster than the speed of light - but it 'really' didn't, because, well, uh, because we say so, because we have to say some fucking bullshit to explain the obvious contradictions...
FUCK OFF
Besides, if the speed of light cannot be exceeded, how in the hell do you explain how Captain Kirk got the fucking Enterprise all over the fucking place so quick? Huh?
Besides, if the speed of light cannot be exceeded, how in the hell do you explain how Captain Kirk got the fucking Enterprise all over the fucking place so quick? Huh?
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light moves in the universe, and nothing in the universe can go faster than light. doesn't mean the universe can't though...
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There's conjecture that tachyons are faster than light.
light moves in the universe, and nothing in the universe can go faster than light. doesn't mean the universe can't though...
There's conjecture that tachyons are faster than light.
[video]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ygE01sOhzz0[/video]
Soooo, in the first few milliseconds after the BB, the universe did expand faster than the speed of light - but it 'really' didn't, because, well, uh, because we say so, because we have to say some fucking bullshit to explain the obvious contradictions...
FUCK OFF
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Wow... Obviously we're wrong and you're bloating up over time, faster than the speed of light. Well, I can only see one thing expanding that fast, your stupidity.
Again, space is expanding at faster than light speeds, matter is just like a passenger on the train unchanged (speed wise). Matter and space; two different things. Relativity bitch!
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Having trouble with FACTS, are you? [/quote]
Hahaha, you blame science for its failure, but it's science that helped humanity discover the big bang and rate of expansion?
Soooo, in the first few milliseconds after the BB, the universe did expand faster than the speed of light - but it 'really' didn't, because, well, uh, because we say so, because we have to say some fucking bullshit to explain the obvious contradictions...
FUCK OFF
Wow... Obviously we're wrong and you're bloating up over time, faster than the speed of light. Well, I can only see one thing expanding that fast, your stupidity.
Again, space is expanding at faster than light speeds, matter is just like a passenger on the train unchanged (speed wise). Matter and space; two different things. Relativity bitch!
Having trouble with FACTS, are you?
Hahaha, you blame science for its failure, but it's science that helped humanity discover the big bang and rate of expansion?
The restrictions on relativity deal with objects moving through space. Movement through space causes a warping of space dimensions and energy, which wouldn't apply to the space itself.
The restrictions on relativity deal with objects moving through space. Movement through space causes a warping of space dimensions and energy, which wouldn't apply to the space itself.
Besides, if the speed of light cannot be exceeded, how in the hell do you explain how Captain Kirk got the fucking Enterprise all over the fucking place so quick? Huh?
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Motherfucking WARP engines mofucker.
Besides, if the speed of light cannot be exceeded, how in the hell do you explain how Captain Kirk got the fucking Enterprise all over the fucking place so quick? Huh?
Motherfucking WARP engines mofucker.
Motherfucking WARP engines mofucker.
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^^Warp is called warp because it warps space time. It's not a speed, it folds space so the laws of physics are never broken, they are bypassed.
Motherfucking WARP engines mofucker.
^^Warp is called warp because it warps space time. It's not a speed, it folds space so the laws of physics are never broken, they are bypassed.
The restrictions on relativity deal with objects moving through space. Movement through space causes a warping of space dimensions and energy, which wouldn't apply to the space itself.
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galaxies are not moving faster than light. nope, no, now way, and even if they were we wouldn't be able to see it because it would be moving faster than the light can get here, and would simply look as if it disappeared.
space between two galaxies could expand faster than light, and you could warp said pace faster than light.
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[quote user=EdRoberts] ^
Besides, if the speed of light cannot be exceeded, how in the hell do you explain how Captain Kirk got the fucking Enterprise all over the fucking place so quick? Huh?
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a "warp bubble" can be moved by expanding and contracting space faster than the speed of light. every warp factor is how exponentially you expand the space.
[quote user=n0body] serious we was having a real discussion with the village idiot, then you 2 nerds came along and ruined it. fuck i hate all them star<insert name> programmes
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warp drive is real. it violates no law of physics, and is mathematically sound. we just have no clue how to produce the insane amounts of power required to do it.
The restrictions on relativity deal with objects moving through space. Movement through space causes a warping of space dimensions and energy, which wouldn't apply to the space itself.
galaxies are not moving faster than light. nope, no, now way, and even if they were we wouldn't be able to see it because it would be moving faster than the light can get here, and would simply look as if it disappeared.
space between two galaxies could expand faster than light, and you could warp said pace faster than light.
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Besides, if the speed of light cannot be exceeded, how in the hell do you explain how Captain Kirk got the fucking Enterprise all over the fucking place so quick? Huh?
a "warp bubble" can be moved by expanding and contracting space faster than the speed of light. every warp factor is how exponentially you expand the space.
warp drive is real. it violates no law of physics, and is mathematically sound. we just have no clue how to produce the insane amounts of power required to do it.
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A theory that can be proven with mathematics and physics.
A theory that can be proven with mathematics and physics.