IMPONDERABLES!! (help me finish my book!)

[WeldingHank]

1) DRAG!! DRAG DRAG DRAG!. as you go faster, drag increases. we may never be able to overcome drag!

 

[cyc]

I am not 100% sure, but I remember someone saying that if you go as fast or faster than the speed of light, time will somehow **** up, like, if you're travelling at light speed, you'll start to age very very quickly.

 

[WeldingHank]

if you know a little about einstiens theory of realtivity, you know that he theorized that if you travel away from somthing at the speed of light, time at that point would stop and would only continue after you had stopped traveling so fast. the other thing is. if you travel at the speed of light, you may actually BECOME light. and no longer be real matter. its sub-light speeds that will be the best for human travel.

 

[servoeyes]

That is unless we get matter transporters...Prof. Frink has them, and they're only 2 dollars...but they only transport matter.

 

[WeldingHank]

yes, then you would need a RE-Bigulator ray!

 

[jflo]

hmm...what would happen if the "universe" was divided by 0 ? is there a "multiverse" (i.e. jet li's 'the one') ? if gravity is so strong, why hasn't the planet imploded yet ? (i guess the answer would be because of its shape, any more shifting or shapeing is resisted against by earth's shape). i can't think of ne more...

 

[jersey_emt]

I am not 100% sure, but I remember someone saying that if you go as fast or faster than the speed of light, time will somehow **** up, like, if you're travelling at light speed, you'll start to age very very quickly.

You actually age slower.

Well, you REALLY age the same rate. But time stretches out as you approach the speed of light. If you were to travel at the speed of light for X years, then return home, everyone you know would have aged more than X years.

 

[BadBandar]

i got a few questions to ask.

I bet everyone here has seen Star Trek, Star Wars, SpaceBalls(which is a great movie) All those space series on UPN and all that s***. And you see all the space ships warp. Where the f*** do they go? do they just disappear and if they warp to another place. How? y cant we warp from here to work, to school, to the can?

And i seen back to the future right (!,2 and 3...i think theres a 4). But anyways, if they go back to the past and like jsut drop a cup and it breaks...will that change the future? cuz the cup is broken...and someone had to clean it, which took them away from what they were doin before.

And if someone doesnt take a s*** for one month, and has been eating everyday(which is unlikely). will you need surjery? or can u sit down and get it all out?

 

[servoeyes]

The first is explained in star trek using the Warp Bubble. It provides a type of barrier where you can physically exist, and yet move faster than the speed of light. Star Wars seems to use a similar type of technology, though not explained exactly. What's happening in Star Wars is that they plot a vourse and head that way at FTL speeds. Solo even says that if he doesn't plot he course right they'll end up in an asteroid or sun or planet. This could also mean that they use workholes...which goes back to my question.

As for your second question, yes.

Your third question: I heard a story a bout a kid who didn't crap for a couple weeks at a camp and then threw up his crap because it'd backed up so far.

 

[BadBandar]

damn...feel sorry for that kid. one solution (bed pan, can be stolen from your local hospital)

But i guess ur right about the others.