SRK Lounge Ver. 19. Why doesn't my watermelon airhead taste anything like real watermelon?

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too busy drinking to google it, but from what I remember from physics, it’s due to the laws of relativity. As an object approaches the speed of light it gets infinite mass, time stops, and it gets really long or some shit. I remember asking my prof what it would look like to see an object moving at the speed of light, and he just said you’d see it. Basically, objects that have mass aren’t supposed to be able to go to the speed of light, or even close (according to simulations they run with particle accelerators, using objects with minute amounts of mass), and even moreso the speed of light is generally accepted as the fastest possible speed in the universe (never mind things I couldn’t understand like the gravitational pull of a black hole must obviously be greater than the speed of light to stop light from escaping, or what would happen if an object travelling at the speed of light used nitro or dumped cargo or hit boosters or got hit by another object or anything else that would logically increase speed).

But then again the speed of sound was apparently the top speed before we hit mach 1

I meant wow as in the fact that the math was fucking chimp simple

edit: damn, i gotta read the white shadow post now :stuck_out_tongue:

edit #2: well said. however:

dont tell me you had to learn physics with miles and acres or some other crazy american shit. Speed of light is done in metres per second. Mostly cuz you could round that fucker up to 3.0 x 10^8 or whatever

for those of you less educated, an example would be when you shine light into water. Hence why there is no light at the bottom of the ocean.

This is what always bugged me, and I would love if you could explain better. Due to the laws of gravity, wouldn’t an object with ANY mass at all, travelling at the speed of light, instantly gain infinite mass, and thus either the universe would converge upon them (objects with most mass attract other objects), or would some other crazy space/time thing happen (theoretically)???

also, from what I’ve heard/read/imagined, the theories of quantum mechanics allow for objects to break the speed of light (or teleport, or exist in multiple places at once, depending on who you ask). I fondly remember being a dumbass in high school and arguing the shit out of the speed of light being able to be broken. I still don’t 100% believe that is the maximum attainable “speed” however I also don’t think things that will break “speed” will do it by actually traversing all the distance between two points (if that makes any sense at all).

wasn’t there a badass movie out awhile ago that dealt with quantum mechanics (it was more of an educational movie though)???

edit #3: holy shit, now I know what the damned feels like, except I’m handsome and drunk off my ass

edit #4: apologies. I am now on a bender of reading up on FTL shit.

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Yes forrest. GO back to teaching on boston public.

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Fend for ourselves dinner night.

Cheddar garlic biscuits and Genesee cream ale.

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The Wire ended just a few years ago. That’s a pretty weak-ass statute of limitations.

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I wanna fuck Vanessa Morgan. Damn she is fucking sweet-looking.

This has been THE INVINCIBLE SWORDSMAN saying:

I would beat that shit the fuck up!

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I can’t remember where on the picture box I saw this, but it was some sciencey show that was showing a simulation of something like this. It involved a high-speed train set on a track that circumnavigated the Earth. One track, all the way around. The train gains speed until it’s as fast as it can go (I can’t remember how close to light speed it said). The idea is based on the notion that the faster you go, the slower time is around you. The idea this show presented was that even if this train got as close as possible to light speed without actually hitting light speed, this rule would cause all molecular motion within the train to slow down so much that the added speed from running on the train would not let you break light speed. You wouldn’t notice it from your perspective, everything appears normal to you. But outside the train time is normal. Anyway the claim was that you could be on this train at that speed for what would seem to you as a matter of hours, and when you come out the rest of Earth will have advanced 100 years, while the only advancement you made was now having to take a major piss.

Also, I think the G-forces involved at that kind of speed would crush you to death or something. They didn’t mention anything about that that I can recall.

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I honestly don’t know what would happen if an object went the speed of light, but it seems the laws of the universe prevents this from ever happening because the universe has a finite amount of energy.

Particles “teleporting” or being entangled, it’s not the same thing as traveling at the speed of light. A single particle in a superposition state is existing in multiple points in space simultaneously, giving the illusion of traveling. Objects that are entangled share the same quantum state and mirror each other regardless of distance, however these particles don’t send any new information to each other that would violate the speed of light clause. Entanglement and superposition actually are really interesting topics when discussing electrons which I could go into detail if you are interested.

As far as breaking the “rules” of the speed of light, wormholes are close but technically aren’t defeating physics. Wormholes are merely a loophole (quite literally) that bends space-time to travel distances of extraordinary lengths, like squeezing 2 points of a rubber band and having the sides touch, making it easier for let’s say- an ant to cross the middle instead of walking all the way around. So in essence, distance is being altered not speed.

The interesting thing about wormholes is that according to Stephen Hawking, if one were to jump into a wormhole and travel to another galaxy, living their for 10 years and then return, that person would arrive from our perspective just a few moments after they left, regardless of how long they were gone relative to our time. This means that causality is preserved; because the same lengthy events experienced by conventionally traveling toward such a distance would still occur to the traveler.

Also, even if a FTL particle existed (like the theoretical Tachyon), it would be impossible to detect with anything we know of, because we would require particles of equal or greater speed/or influence to detect them creating a paradox.

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Anyone know of any good websites that teach about MATV systems, signal loss through colaxial cables, and other fun A/V stuff that I know you guys love so much.

PM me if you do so you don’t gotta expose your inner geek.

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we start discussing spoilers openly for movies much earlier than that

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Who’s we? Be specific, so I know where the tar and feathers go.

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http://www.gamerevolution.com/manifesto/how-video-games-saved-a-transgendered-gamer-8021

I’m surprised it wasn’t about Kayo

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I envision a future where Nvidia and Intel have us tricked into accepting consumer gaming PC cases essentially becoming blade enclosures and you have to buy multiple PC modules to run in parallel instead of just building a simple PC with multi-core CPU and three SLI (or Crossfire, since I’m an ATI guy and no one ever remembers Crossfire). And that’s only if Microsoft doesn’t trick us into accepting them turning our PCs into dumb terminals all over again first. I can hear the fan boys now: “Dude, your PC will never be more powerful than M$'s remote supercomputer. It’s totally worth the $80 a month.” Yeah, but we also have no other option to play current-gen games now, mastermind!

/dumb technology rant :tup:

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That looks like JustB.

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too bad it wasnt sakura.densetsu

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This is my comparison for Americans of which province is closest to an american state. (general demographics/landcape/size of cities/etc)

Maybe Val and Sovi3t could shed some light on what they think too.

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I agree with it except for Ont and Quebec. Well Ontario is more like Jersey with Toronto as NYC.
Quebec is definitely Alabama. Where everyone is racist, they believe the south will rise again and don’t like immigrants.

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I put QC as Mass+Louisiana is because of the french influence from Louis and because it has very nice cities due to their age and old architecture like Mass.

But I think Ont could definitely be NJ + NYC.

I’m pretty sure that Hamilton = Newark.

And I put NF as Alabama because everyone talks funny and they are all white pride there too.

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Or Miss Darkness.

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I feel wasting a bunch of time and trying ( and most likely failing hard and complaining) to get semi good at 3S.

WHO WANTS TO PLAY WITH ME. I am going to pick Hugo because he is Andre teh Giant.

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If you play on xbox i’ll play.