Reply to: Faster than the speed of light - so what?

[d000hg]

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

What a suprise.

Yeah, it always had the ring of falseness about it. Too obvious.

[BlasterBates]

I'm just going to try out this time machine I've just built.

[BlasterBates]

Wow that's fantastic it works.

[BrilloPad]

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

What a suprise.

[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?

[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]

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


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



Doomed!

[AlfredJPruffock]

Both of which can interrupt the pace-time continuum.

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

[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.

[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.

[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

[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.

[TheFaQQer]

Right I'm patenting neutrino fiber internet. I AM GOING TO BE RICH!!!

Too late - I did it tomorrow.

[original PM]

It was the different route bit that made me suggest there were implications for time travel and space travel. Think of space time as a sheet of paper. Draw two points on it and draw a straight line between these two points. This is the shortest distance between these two points, and given the speed of light in a vacuum we can calculate the time it would take for light to travel from point a to point b.

If however you folded the piece of paper so the points touched, then the shortest route changes. No one said the piece of paper had to be flat. It could well be that the neutrino did not break the light barrier, but just took a different route, ie the paper folded. Harness this and massive space travel is a possibility in our lifetime.

What you propose is an Einstein-Rosen Bridge - or a wormhole in laymans terms

Also if you look at the quantum world particle pairs (these pairs are always made of matter and antimatter) are appearing and dissapearing all the time in a vacuum giving the potential to tap into the zero point energy.

Thing is that action of appearing moving apart, then moving back together and dissapearing due to annihilating each other looks the same whether you run time forward or backwards.....

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??

[GreenLabel]

If however you folded the piece of paper so the points touched, then the shortest route changes. No one said the piece of paper had to be flat. It could well be that the neutrino did not break the light barrier, but just took a different route, ie the paper folded. Harness this and massive space travel is a possibility in our lifetime.

You been watching Event Horizon again?