Faster than the Speed of Light.

The gravitational force of a black hole exceeds the speed of light. If it didn't then light could escape. :)

For interstellar traveling, there may be some trick you could use.
You'll never be faster than Light, but you can fly another way so your way is shorter than the Way the Light goes. if you want to do this, you need very much gravity, means a black hole. there is a small area near the black hole, where you can take a shorter way.
This Way looks like beeing longer, because you are flying a courve around this black hole, or better, it seems like you're flying a courve, but actually the light does. This means you can send a Radio signal to the aimpoint and you can be there before the signal comes. So it seems like you where faster than light without travelling in time.

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so am i . i think johnny is great if i was in ireland he would be just the person i would love to have a pint and a chat with

edit- how does everybody else get their quotes to turn blue and italic i copied and pasted and it looks as though i wrote it myself? :p

edit again before i went out i was watching a documentary about the theory of time travel with steven hawkins and other well known theoretical scientists which of course mentioned more than once about travelling faster or close to the speed of light and even those bright people basically concluded that because of increased mass as you travel closer to the speed of light you would require an infinate amount of energy (a lot more than we can harness) im pretty sure einstien concluded that almost 100 years ago .we havent really come far in this have we? all the theorists now seem to be talking about bending space time to travel great distances instead of travelling faster than the speed of light but this is pretty much still theoretical . i concluded that they still aren't really sure about how the universe really works but they do make extremely good television programmes ;)

The gravitational force of a black hole exceeds the speed of light. If it didn't then light could escape. :)

Space is so curved up upon itself that no light can escape. The escape velocity is greater than the speed of light.

What then I wonder of Hawking radiation ??

Space is so curved up upon itself that no light can escape. The escape velocity is greater than the speed of light.

What then I wonder of Hawking radiation ??

Sagittarius A* (pronounced "Sagittarius A-star", standard abbreviation Sgr A*) is a bright and very compact astronomical radio source at the center of the Milky Way Galaxy, near the border of the constellations Sagittarius and Scorpius. It is part of a larger astronomical feature known as Sagittarius A. Sagittarius A* is likely to be the location of a supermassive black hole

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Ya know,

I thought that we americans were the only ones who still enjoyed the "pint"--albeit a measly 16 ounce one. I figured by now you all would be drinking your 500 milliliters instead of your "proper pints"

As a fact, clocks have slowed due to space travel, and have varied on an airplane going east as opposed to west. A clock at the bottom of a clock tower has been measured to run at a different rate than one at the top due to the difference in gravity due to the difference in distance from the center of the Earth. All of this has been carefully measured and the Atomic bomb did actually go off.

The cesium clock (in the UK by the way) has a frequency of 9,192,631,770 cycles per second and it' s accuracy is better than one part in ten to the thirteenth power. Thus, the effects that are described by Einstein and Lorentz can and have been measured. Our astronauts are a few seconds younger than their birthdays indicate.

I too have developed my own analysis and i will now choose to divulge this to claim precedence over Johnny's work:

Yes Daddio, in england we can still enjoy a pint, but only on draught :(
wines,spirits,bottles,cans etc have all been converted to ml :(
but we have still been able to hold on to our beloved pint :)

(although i have occasionally dropped one ;))

cheers!!
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great comics by the way !!

Is it possible that 'distance' is an illusion and therefore bypassable? My understanding is that in quantum entanglement two electrons for instance are synchronized without time lapsed between their movements. I realise that we are just beginning to understand these things but I guess that's my point. It would seem to me that many of these puzzles we struggle with are related to a misunderstanding of how distance, time, speed, frame of reference, space etc really function and how they relate to and affect eachother.

Is it possible that 'distance' is an illusion and therefore bypassable? My understanding is that in quantum entanglement two electrons for instance are synchronized without time lapsed between their movements. I realise that we are just beginning to understand these things but I guess that's my point. It would seem to me that many of these puzzles we struggle with are related to a misunderstanding of how distance, time, speed, frame of reference, space etc really function and how they relate to and affect eachother.

This has always been a little fuzzy to me. If you look at the local particle that is entangled then you see it's state (spin)--then you know the state of the other particle. In theory the state is not determined until you look then the remote particle assumes the opposite state. Well-- rational thought says that the state was already determined and then how can the information be "time stamped" at the remote location to see the state selection occurrence. And if you looked before hand that would ruin the experiment.

Since this seems like philosophical sophistry to me, I will have to study quantum mechanics more to appreciate what is being said in this regard.

Right now it looks to me like "if a tree fell in the forest and no one observed it was a sound made" I claim the sound was made but nobody heard it. If you posit that a sound can only exist if someone hears it then you have a different answer. I say a sound is a disturbance in the surrounding medium and therefore a sound was created. I say that the state was determined and you will find out when you look.

I am aware of the two-slit anomalies in this regard--just trying to get an understanding of what may not be understood.

Thats true what was interesting is that the state of the first particle changed and over a great distance the other particle changed as well. It was more than just knowing what state one particle is in so the other can be determined. They knew what both particles were doing. Logic would dictate that at great distance 2 objects would take time to react to each other. The test actually proved that there wasn't any lag time
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They could not know since they can't communicate from one place to the next faster than the speed of light.

Shouldn't it not be called entanglement since I believe that one spin is positive and the other is negative. How do you determine that the particle is in both states or neither without looking. If we could flip the state locally and have synchronized clocks at both sites then we could see if the information was transmitted faster than the speed of light. We should be able to alter the spin with microwaves.