Faster than the speed of light - so what?

[TimberWolf]

As far as I know all physical laws are time reversible, but in practise the odds of things organising into a less random (or any particular) state as time goes on becomes vanishingly small for anything outside the quantum domain. Entropy increases.

Lots of people are eagerly making up theories, but I doubt many are saying time travel is a possibly, blithely throwing another king-pin of physics, causality, by the wayside. Baby/bathwater.

Perhaps space-time is space-time-mass/energy; 5 vectors instead of 4 or something, or perhaps CERN goofed.

[Spacecadet]

Also this is the reason why balckholes radiate energy - the above particle antiparticle event takes place on the even horizon of a blackhole and thus one of the particles is sucked into the black hole and the other is free to radiate away --- but surely you will cry this is something for nothing it seems that energy or matter is being created - which is wrong.

Anyone care to explain??

Also known as blackhole evaporation. Everything stays in balance so it's all ok
Hawking radiation - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

[BrilloPad]

What it means is that scientists should stick to what they are good at. Fancy equations. And accept that they are no good at philosophy.

[Doggy Styles]

What it means is that scientists should stick to what they are good at. Fancy equations. And accept that they are no good at philosophy.

Yes. You can't turn everything into a fancy equation, like hatred for Andy D'Urso or a Nazi rally. Both of which can interrupt the pace-time continuum.

[AlfredJPruffock]

Both of which can interrupt the pace-time continuum.

Phew - for a moment I thought somebody said Space Time Continumimum-thingy.

[DimPrawn]

This has some serious consequences that don't bare thinking about.


If time can slow down, it means less invoices per unit time.



Doomed!

[original PM]

no prawn - time will remain the same for you just will be different in your clients from of reference.

So if you make sure you are the one doing the light speed thing you could invoice the client for 20 years work when only 10 years passed in your time frame.

There's a nice little earner!

[DimPrawn]

no prawn - time will remain the same for you just will be different in your clients from of reference.

So if you make sure you are the one doing the light speed thing you could invoice the client for 20 years work when only 10 years passed in your time frame.

There's a nice little earner!

You've never seen me move have you?

[BrilloPad]

BBC News - Faster-than-light neutrinos could be down to bad wiring

What a suprise.

[BlasterBates]

Wow that's fantastic it works.