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"some things can, in fact, travel faster than light there are certain experiments whereby if you let a particle split and then examine half of it, your observation has an instantaneous effect on the other half of the particle, even if it's a million miles away by then scientists, I think, brush off this "Spooky action at a distance" by claiming that no actual information is conveyed, and therefore that nothing is really moving but I don't want to talk to a scientist...y'all motherfuckers lyin' and gettin' me pissed"

Quantum Entanglement.

I learned about it from Mass Effect 2, LOL

7/23/2010 2:23:03 PM

They mentioned it in Flashforward too.... but it was very pseudo-sciency

7/23/2010 2:48:09 PM

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""Here's my proof that you can go faster than light: Step 1 - Travel 301000 kilometers Step 2 - Take less than a second to do so""

this is what we call in the pizza business "the hard way". light travels 8 inches in a nanosecond so why don't you just try and do that faster. i'm pretty sure every lab where this experiment could take place has 8 inches to spare (zing?) as opposed to the 30k km.

7/23/2010 3:26:31 PM

nothing that has a rest mass can travel faster than light. yes, there are theorized quanta that travel faster, but they are in effect massless and cease to exist in their previous form when their speed reduces to that of light

no, you nor your merrygoround can reach light speed. assuming you could provide a rigid enough structure to propel a mass at that distance, it would take an infinite amount of energy to actually reach c. that is, of course, if you completely ignore special relativity. There is no degree of structural integrity immune to its effects. as each successive point further from the center gains speed, it becomes more massive, contracts spacially relative to the center, and local time slows -- therefore as the endpoint (and inward as speed increases) approaches the speed of light, it asymptotically approaches infinite mass, 0 physical space, and 0 time velocity

the view from the origin would essentially be the bar spiraling around you with increasing concentricity, even though at any point on the bar it would appear mostly straight in either direction

basically, the thought experiment fails

[Edited on July 23, 2010 at 3:41 PM. Reason : the view]

7/23/2010 3:35:10 PM