What if you shined a flashlight...
Thursday, June 10, 2004 by I.R. Brainiac | Discussion: WinCustomize Talk
while going the speed of light?Would it shine any further?(or would the light just collect at the source and get REALLY hot) 
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Aleatoric
Reply #42 Friday, June 11, 2004 10:55 AM
Actually, that's correct, as far as it goes. The interesting bits happen because relativity states that there's no privileged frame of reference (for all observers, the speed of light will be measured the same, no matter how fast one observer may be travelling with regard to some other observer).
At relativistic velocities, the math is not merely additive.
Anyway, this could be a book (and has been several
) and I'm sure no one really wants to see a 30,000 word post on relativity and quantum physics 
Suffice it to say that the universe is fascinatingly strange, and it's a lot of fun playing with it
Reply #42 Friday, June 11, 2004 10:55 AM
| It's all about the decision of whether the speed of light is an absolute....a range that cannot be exceeded...in which case the projector's speed cannot be added to the light's speed....wave, or particle. |
Actually, that's correct, as far as it goes. The interesting bits happen because relativity states that there's no privileged frame of reference (for all observers, the speed of light will be measured the same, no matter how fast one observer may be travelling with regard to some other observer).
At relativistic velocities, the math is not merely additive.
Anyway, this could be a book (and has been several
) and I'm sure no one really wants to see a 30,000 word post on relativity and quantum physics 
Suffice it to say that the universe is fascinatingly strange, and it's a lot of fun playing with it
UBoB
Reply #43 Friday, June 11, 2004 11:06 AM
Reply #43 Friday, June 11, 2004 11:06 AM
Two Zen monks were arguing about a flag waving in the breeze, and whether it was the flag or the wind that was moving. The Sixth Patriarch of Zen, Hui Neng, overheard "I suggested it was neither, that what moved was their own mind." 
ImStein
Reply #44 Friday, June 11, 2004 11:06 AM
Reply #44 Friday, June 11, 2004 11:06 AM
ImStein ponders and scatches head at above conversation.
Ice cream is still liquid, just frozen. And proper ice cream is in my tummy 
Ice cream is still liquid, just frozen. And proper ice cream is in my tummy
_footsie_
Reply #45 Friday, June 11, 2004 11:47 AM
Reply #45 Friday, June 11, 2004 11:47 AM
*Hides in the closet with a flashlight and a mirror...crams the flashlight in her mouth....turns it on and looks in the mirror......
Heckuva way to get rosey cheeks!!!
Heckuva way to get rosey cheeks!!!
Aleatoric
Reply #46 Friday, June 11, 2004 1:50 PM
Reply #46 Friday, June 11, 2004 1:50 PM
UBoB,
You're making the unwarranted assumption that I *have* a mind
Or ..
I have a mind like a steel trap. There's a dead raccoon stuck in it
You're making the unwarranted assumption that I *have* a mind
Or ..
I have a mind like a steel trap. There's a dead raccoon stuck in it
KarmaGirl
Reply #47 Friday, June 11, 2004 2:15 PM
Reply #47 Friday, June 11, 2004 2:15 PM
| Ice cream is still liquid, just frozen. |
If it is frozen, then isn't it a solid?
Is glass liquid or solid? (that's an odd one)
Jell-o is a colloidal suspension
Aleatoric
Reply #48 Friday, June 11, 2004 2:56 PM
Reply #48 Friday, June 11, 2004 2:56 PM
Glass is an amorphous solid (i.e. non-aligned crystalline structure).
As for ice cream, if you don't think it's a solid, you've never tried to spoon it out right from the freezer
As for ice cream, if you don't think it's a solid, you've never tried to spoon it out right from the freezer
KarmaGirl
Reply #49 Friday, June 11, 2004 3:37 PM
Reply #49 Friday, June 11, 2004 3:37 PM
| Glass is an amorphous solid (i.e. non-aligned crystalline structure). |
Actually, that is just one side of the debate:
"Glass is a liquid," and "Glass is an amorphous solid," and "Glass is neither a solid nor a liquid." There is not a lot of consensus.
A lot of scientists just put it in its own category as "glass".
ImStein
Reply #51 Friday, June 11, 2004 5:10 PM
Reply #51 Friday, June 11, 2004 5:10 PM
Does this mean that mercury being a "liquid Metal" is an oxymoron? Does it fall under the same catagory?
As for ice cream, it is my opinion that anything that melts at a temp. above 32 farenhite(sp?) is and will always be a liquid. Again, just my opinion.
ImStein ponders with footsie
As for ice cream, it is my opinion that anything that melts at a temp. above 32 farenhite(sp?) is and will always be a liquid. Again, just my opinion.
ImStein ponders with footsie
aufisch
Reply #52 Friday, June 11, 2004 5:26 PM
Reply #52 Friday, June 11, 2004 5:26 PM
Ahhhh, Aleatoric, would you like to live at my place? I could free up a whole shelf on my book-case?
I made my own theory about the state of things. Everything that is solid at room-temperature is considered to be solid. (that obviously does not inclued Ice-cream).
You can call it Aufisch's rule.......
I made my own theory about the state of things. Everything that is solid at room-temperature is considered to be solid. (that obviously does not inclued Ice-cream).
You can call it Aufisch's rule.......
_footsie_
Reply #53 Friday, June 11, 2004 5:28 PM
Reply #53 Friday, June 11, 2004 5:28 PM
.....while also pondering navel
I think it's only water's freezing point....of course that would be 0 celsius
fahrenheit
I think it's only water's freezing point....of course that would be 0 celsius
fahrenheit
ImStein
Reply #54 Friday, June 11, 2004 5:35 PM
Reply #54 Friday, June 11, 2004 5:35 PM
Thank you footsie. Just glad Jafo didn't see that!!!!
Just glad Jafo didn't see that!!!! 
Jafo
Reply #57 Friday, June 11, 2004 7:54 PM
Reply #57 Friday, June 11, 2004 7:54 PM
Glass is a liquid....but it just has a rather slow flow rate at room temperature....
_footsie_
Reply #58 Friday, June 11, 2004 8:56 PM
Reply #58 Friday, June 11, 2004 8:56 PM
I understand that it takes warm water longer to boil because of the oxygen content
Hus
Reply #59 Friday, June 11, 2004 9:33 PM
Reply #59 Friday, June 11, 2004 9:33 PM
Can anyone tell me why they put nutritional facts on water?
Aleatoric
Reply #60 Friday, June 11, 2004 9:44 PM
That's for people who are allergic to water
Reply #60 Friday, June 11, 2004 9:44 PM
| Can anyone tell me why they put nutritional facts on water? |
That's for people who are allergic to water
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Reply #41 Friday, June 11, 2004 10:18 AM
It's all about the decision of whether the speed of light is an absolute....a range that cannot be exceeded...in which case the projector's speed cannot be added to the light's speed....wave, or particle.
Simple math...when accepting theorems relating to absolutes...infinity, etc....