300 Times Faster than the speed of Light!!

[NeilTrain]

Yes, recently scientists have created waves of energy that can travel up to 300 times the speed of light.

Using a modified laser, they had light particles move so fast that they were coming out of the other end of the measurement chamber theoretically before they even entered.

How? Imagine a slow moving boat, the waves that move out in front of it, they are created from the movement of the boat, but are actually moving faster than the boat itself, weird, but now imagine doing this with the energy waves from light. now thats crazy.

Now apply this to computers, fiber optics use light, so this is probably the first thing to benefit, but in time, even CPU's will be spitting out messages at this rate, who knows how fast the chips will be going 10 years from now.

Sorry i dont have a link to this articel, i read it in a local newspaper last week, but im sure it wont be hard to find it if you do a few searches.
- Neil

[Szech]

That would be pretty trippy, to have light come out of that thing a second before you turn it on. Could you imagine that? You get up to turn on the lights, and they turn on before you reach the light switch!

[hd581]

Could you imagine that? You get up to turn on the lights, and they turn on before you reach the light switch!

Except that it can't be ordinary bulbs, they have to be special lasers. So you get up to turn on the lights, and you get vaporized before you get there. Wow, that sucks.

[wtp]

my god... this could mean the beginning of time traveling, all you need is something that is faster than the speed of light. once u exceed that, u go back in time..... if we can make a vehicle, then well, the future can change..... but the question is, if you go back before you were born, would u exist? and if u killed hitler or whatever, would the future be different? my god.. scary, i say time travelling has it's pros, but many cons.. nothing we know until we do it.

wtp

[brandon184]

Time Travelling.. Scary. You distrupt a rock, and the next thing you know Bill Gates owns every every human being in the world.


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[hd581]

On this note, go see the movie Frequency. I thought it was pretty good.

[Meat Puppet]

Thats why you "unfortunately in some cases" wouldnt change anything.

But as for the cpu what would the htz be on that thing?? Instantaneus streaming audio no more world wide wait thats for sure .

[blind to truth]

well,it could be THz (terahertz) THz=about,i think,1,000GHz.Besides,no one will let time travel exsist.Think of it,no one would trust some one else fiddleing with the present.But it could be for the best,Like when marty's dad punched Biff in 1955,the in 1985 he had a decent life.

[Inferior]

Can't they make microwaves go faster than the speed of light too?

[NeilTrain]

I dont know about the microwaves, but as for time travel, that will never happen, sorry. Even if you can go a million times faster than light, all you can do is SEE the past, not interact with it. That would help solve murders of course, you could just go back to the scene of the crime and video tape it, then show up in court with a VHS, including close-ups, the killer will be shocked, he didnt see any cameras, especially that close, thats nuts, youll never have to witness something ever again, even if you miss it, you can just go back and record it.

But people have been doing that for years, using the Hubble telescope you can look so deep into space you can practically see the big bang, but wait that was a jilion years ago, how can you see it? well the light has travelled so far its taken a really long, long time, kinda like an echo, except with light.
But if you were to integrate some sort of light wave sensor into an object, say, a robot for example, the robot could have Jedi-like reflexes, that is, it will see things before they happen, things really close would be harder to react to, but further away, the greater the time you have before the actual light reaches it. It could dodge bullets it would be so fast.

[FrozenLiquidity]

Although I don't believe what you said NeilTrain, is true. If I could get a copy of this article and take a look at it I might think otherwise. But as it stands now, I do not believe anything can go faster than light.
Even if the light were emitted from a source that is moving at the speed of light, from a stationary viewpoint the light being emitted is going at the speed of light, which is about 630 million miles per hour or something.
Also, the fourth dimension, the dimension of time, is in a constant forward motion, and could not be reversed. Just as we see light from distant stars that have taken hundreds of years to reach us, If we were at that star looking back at Earth, we would see things on Earth that took place hunrededs of years ago. But time only moves one way, so while we can see things happening in the past, we cannot actually revisit the past. Plus, that would create a temporal paradox and the universe would blow up or sumthin'
As objects near the speed of light, time for them changes. When you are moving, your time is different than from someone who is just standing around. Although not noticeable at the speeds that we travel at and consider "fast" (70 to 120 MPH )The effects of become readily apparent when one nears the speed of light. If you had a twin brother and he staied on earth while you took a spaceship to go to someplace and you started to travel at nearly the speed of light, time would slow down enough for the people inside the vessel that when they returned, the effects of this would be noticable when their twin is 80 years old and you are only and 35, yet you were both the same age when you left. People in motion age slower than people that are motionless.
One last point, if you were moving near the speed of light away from earth, you would look back at earth and see things in sllooowww mooottiioonn. If you attained the speed of light and looked back, the earth would be a still photo. If you somehow managed to go faster than light, than you would see things on earth happening in reverse, or you would see nothing. When I see nothing, I do not mean complete blackness, I mean a void. You wouldn't see anything.

Anyone found this article? scan it in or type it up and send it to me.

FrozenLiquidity

Edit->Hey Inferior, thats a cute way to boost your post count real fast. But it didn't contribute an ounce to this discussion.

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[akaBruno]

Let me know when it comes out in a time released capsule form. I could use a prescription.

Bruno

[Szech]

My head hurts.

[NeilTrain]

First of all, ill apologize for not posting a link to this article when i opened this thread. Like i said i first read it in a local newspaper and later heard it on the national news, Tom Brokaw himself explained most of it, or was it Dan Rather? i get those guys mixed up a lot.

Anyways, as soon as i get home from work today i will dig up the article, and either type it up or look for a link in it.

Also, FrozenLiquidity, you didnt read my last post very well, I never said you could travel back in time, i only said you could SEE the past, and even if you are right about it looking like it was in reverse, who cares, when you are done recording, just play it backwards, its not that hard, either way, it is possible to see the past, as a matter of fact when you look at the sun you are looking at the past, it is 8 minutes old. and no when you travel away from the earth at the speed of light and return you will not be younger than your twin brother, maybe when you are 40 light years away you will, but in the time it takes you to get back, even if going the same speed, you will arrive at the same age.

I think im getting ahead of myself, let me find the article before i go on any further, ive been looking for it on MSNBC but you know these things take forever to get new stuff on them.

[Meat Puppet]

Im not sure if this is the article you read but its the same principle. http://www.compu-web.com/ftl.htm

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