OT: What's This About Light Speed...and Germany?

all this crap is HOG WASH! :mad: :grumpy: :mad: :thumbdn:

i personally have seen hogs in front of a busse booth move faster than the speed of light, booze has been downed faster than the speed of light, shopping carts have been filled faster than the speed of light.

this photon/mirror crap is just a bunch of piggy play, get a life... get a busse...

that is if you can move fast enough :thumbup:



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On a more serious note, how does our concept and measurement of time determine this? If time really does slow as the speed of light is approached, or stop at c, does it follow that anything faster would reach infinite speed where all comparisons end? Not that anyone can comprehend infinity, but where does this line of research continue? Regards, ss.
 
I remember a "thought experiment" from my undergrad days:

1. Take a laser and aim it at something large and distant, such as the moon.
2, Swipe the beam across the surface of the target at a very high rate of angular speed.
3. The beam point that intersects the surface will move faster than the absolute speed of light.

The fault with this is an obvious one: No mass is moving. Still an interesting exercise.

For years my email .sig has been a quote from Feynman:

"Physics is like sex. Sure, it may give some practical results, but that's not why we do it."

Rick
 
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