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It's just annoying that so many people call him 'Hawkins' 
Faster then speed of light.
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But if you could travel at that speed you would see something it would just be at for example 1 FPS a bit like playing Crysis on a netbook rather than nothing at all. But naturally what your eyes receive is not what you actually see so who knows how the brain would interpret it. But I think it would be rather akin to running down the round and blinking constantly.
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If you go in a straight line. Because you've gone round something you'll arrive at your starting point before you left*
*according to New Scientist circa 1994
The speed of light is a constant bound by the universe, Photons only adhere to this maximum.
I prefer to think of it using an analogy that is close to the truth, space and time are finite and measurable, if we are to live in a 4 dimensional space-time where all 4 dimensions are facets of the same thing, then there must be a number, a figure or a concept to convert units from one dimension to another, where we deal with the 3 of space its a 1:1 conversion, 1 cm is 1 cm in any direction, although how does this relate to time, which is conceptually distinct, the answer lies in that number c .
Its a mental idea but maybe holds a smidgen of fact somewhere, we just dont know tbh...
But no, if you could travel faster than the speed of light you would not run into yourself, because you are not travelling back in time any faster than you were when you started speeding away at c+some speed. So you would just be a self contained anomoly
Well... some interesting points there. There is a conversion factor between spacial dimensions and time which is some function of -i, apparently. That is supposed to explain why time slows down at relativistic speeds.
Also worth noting, if you were travelling forwards faster than the speed of light, you would actually be moving backwards in time, and hence in space, at some finite speed.
Basically, you STILL can't travel faster than the speed of light, and the argument is pointless because you are asking, "If I break one immutable rule of a system, how will things behave according to the other rules of the system?"
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well what you see is only light bouncing off an object - so why not see point a if you are fast enough to get to point b before the light gets from a to b? you would have to go fast enough to do the loop and still be there in time to get infront of the light.
Yo' mama so fat, I thought she was travelling at the speed of light!
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what would happen if i broke an unbreakable pencil?
Who said it was unbreakable, a Human? or the Universe itself?, Humans are fallible, and until we break a law the Universe has set then we are going on the ongoing assumtion that its laws are not fallible...
As regarding the unbreakable pencil ? Thats just advertising
As regarding the unbreakable pencil ? Thats just advertising
If you went round faster than the speed of light you'd arrive before you left, so you would go back in time. You would see yourself leave. Maybe
Travelling at near the speed of light would take you into the future, as strange as it sounds, Hawking's Into The Universe episode 2 speaks about this.
pt 3/5 of that ep
pt 4/5 of that ep
(the whole series is glorious in 720P, seriously!)
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Does nobody understand Relativity?
There's a whole lot of wrong in this thread...
ok... you cannot have these 3 things (with all three one must fail):
1) Causality - some event causes another event after the original event. The second event CAN NEVER influence the first.
2) Faster than light travel - this is technically the movement of "Information" at FTL speeds. This includes your body.
3) Special Relativity - this is measureable and experimentally confirmed. So giving this up isn't really a great option.
Basically, because of somthing called a Lorentz Transformation, if you could send information Faster than Light, then in some circumstances it is possible to send a message to yourself which would arrive BEFORE you send the actual message.
Your message could be "Do not send this message" - if you recieve it before sending, and do not send the message you are creating a paradox and breaking Causality.
SO, in order for any information to move faster than the speed of light, you need to abandon Cause and Effect - good luck!
Not to mention the fact that accelerating anything with mass to the speed of light requires INFINITE energy.
NO DEAL.
ok... you cannot have these 3 things (with all three one must fail):
1) Causality - some event causes another event after the original event. The second event CAN NEVER influence the first.
2) Faster than light travel - this is technically the movement of "Information" at FTL speeds. This includes your body.
3) Special Relativity - this is measureable and experimentally confirmed. So giving this up isn't really a great option.
Basically, because of somthing called a Lorentz Transformation, if you could send information Faster than Light, then in some circumstances it is possible to send a message to yourself which would arrive BEFORE you send the actual message.
Your message could be "Do not send this message" - if you recieve it before sending, and do not send the message you are creating a paradox and breaking Causality.
SO, in order for any information to move faster than the speed of light, you need to abandon Cause and Effect - good luck!
Not to mention the fact that accelerating anything with mass to the speed of light requires INFINITE energy.
NO DEAL.
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iirc he did it in a figure 8 pattern
You can't - you just said it was unbreakable, so therefore you can't break it. If you break it, then it wasn't unbreakable in the first place.
What?! No he didn't! He flew round the Earth against the rotation to make it spin the other way and thus reverse time to save humans in peril!
All assuming of course that we are perfectly correct on all of these things and won't have to throw them out of the window like pretty much every other scientific theory man has ever come up with.