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Topic: Gravitons
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Graysith
Chosen Daughter
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posted 08-23-2002 11:24 AM
     
Hehehe....Ahhh, yes: the elusive and teeeeeeeenty-weenty graviton. Small beastie it is purported to be, and when finally tracked will be the mightiest critter to come down the pike. For this particle has been proven mathematically to exist. (Hey, this is what cosmology is all about, folks: hypothesizing, theorizing via mathematical proofs, then the hunt for verifying factual evidence begins....) The big whoop-de-doo about it is that so far gravity is the only "unknown" force in the Universe (to our knowledge, heh.) So far we can only measure it and study it via the effects it has on mass. All other forces and their behaviors have been linked to particles; but not gravity. So when the elusive graviton is found, this will act as the verifying proof to substantiate what physicists call the Grand Unifying Theory: that ALL forces in the Universe act in accordance to the behavior of itty-bitty particles... er, waves... ummm, wavicles, that is....  [ 08-23-2002 12:17 PM: Message edited 1 time, lastly by Graysith ] -------------------- I ride the Stormcloud and the Night!
Posts: 3908 | From: Indianola, Iowa | Registered: Jul 2000 | Logged: 205.188.209.6
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Entaris
Dark Priest
Member # 224
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posted 08-23-2002 10:05 PM
hmm...faster then the speed of light...that presents a bit of a problem...i mean, i just realized this, but, if one was to be moving faster then the speed at which light moves, i would imagin, that the complete lack of light that that would mean, would screw your eyes up bad, i mean, even in utter darkness, we still have some light...but moving faster then it can reach you, that could wack your eyes up, how would you pilot the ship anyway? i mean, you couldnt disactivate it, because there would be no light to find the switch... and also, could it be possible, that moving that fast would cause light to actualy act as if it had mass? like, you turn on a light while in this speed, and the light particals tear through you, and the shuttle... hmm...oh well, guess we'll have to find out... -------------------- "Insert Snappy quote here"
Posts: 796 | From: Victorville | Registered: May 2002 | Logged: 67.227.22.46
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Graysith
Chosen Daughter
Member # 27
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posted 08-24-2002 01:43 AM
Entaris: we cannot go faster than light in the "normal" sense of thought. Instead, we are going to have to "by-pass" the limitations by warping spacetime somehow. (Actually there is a theory that looks promising; only problem is the ship would have to carry more fuel than it could, and the amount of fuel necessary in this theoretical situation increases exponentially with velocity, or something like that. But it's a start.)And the questions you pose about "going faster than light and wouldn't it be dark?" -- well, that's where relativity steps in. Light travels 300,000 km/s NO MATTER WHAT. Independent of the observer. Even travelling at lightspeed, light still comes to you at lightspeed. Something's got to give, however... time slows down instead. Hehe; weird, huh? Oh yeah, THIS is proven as well! Not at velocity's approaching lightspeed, but at more mundane airspeed velocities. Extremely sensitive clocks that are TIMED EXACTLY with stationary counterparts were put aboard a plane and sent around the world against the world's rotation. Time slowed in the flying plane, for the clock onboard was a couple millionths of a second behind the one that stayed on the ground when they were compared. Hehehe... I just love this stuff! -------------------- I ride the Stormcloud and the Night!
Posts: 3908 | From: Indianola, Iowa | Registered: Jul 2000 | Logged: 205.188.209.6
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Entaris
Dark Priest
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posted 08-24-2002 03:41 PM
ya, i was told about the whole time slowing down thing...heh, this was the senario given to us. Everyone in the classroom has a watch, the teacher is at the head of the classroom, everyone is still, all watches are working exactly the same, but, as soon as the teacher starts walking around the classroom, his watch works differently then everyone elses, because for him time is slowling down. course, at that slow a speed, its not noticable, but its there... hmm...isnt physics fun? gotta love those concepts that make you stop and think "hmm...thats strange..." -------------------- "Insert Snappy quote here"
Posts: 796 | From: Victorville | Registered: May 2002 | Logged: 67.227.22.30
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