OT: Alien Contact

Phoenix-D · #1 February 26th, 2003, 10:20 PM

Fyron, you're being so much of a skeptic you're starting to look like a speculator yourself.

We have not tried to accelerate past C. We don't -know- for sure what happens. Yes, we have theory. Yes, have have tests that support it, and observations that do the same. But we haven't done it. Remember how the sound barrier got its name.

The same applies even more so to other FTL methods, especially the ones you mentioned. Lack of proof is not proof of abscene.

Phoenix-D

Suicide Junkie · #2 February 26th, 2003, 10:40 PM

I'm sure there are a lot of wacky crackpots trying to literally accelerate past C, at the moment.

Then there's the serious scientists with their super-high energy particle accelerators who don't even bother with the idea.

Fyron · #3 February 26th, 2003, 10:51 PM

There is a world of difference between the limits of the sound barrier and the speed of light.

ZeroAdunn · #4 February 26th, 2003, 10:52 PM

Wow... this thread is a hotplate ready to explode. Nice to see nobody stepping on anybody elses toes though.

Fyron is quite the skeptic. Amazing isn't it?

As for faster then light, you could travel faster then light, because light has variable velocity and as such you just slow down some light.....

Yah, I know, it is stupid but I had to say it.

As for science, remember this is current science we talk about, there was a time when current science told us the world was flat (I love cliches) We can't really talk about the future in certainties because nobody, unless your phsycic, in which case, what are next weeks lotery numbers?

Fyron · #5 February 26th, 2003, 10:56 PM

What light has variable velocity?

rdouglass · #6 February 26th, 2003, 10:57 PM

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Originally posted by Imperator Fyron:
What light has variable velocity?

I thought all light has variable velocity - it depends on the medium. That is the whole principle behind a prism IIRC....

Aloofi · #7 February 26th, 2003, 10:58 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by Imperator Fyron:
There is a world of difference between the limits of the sound barrier and the speed of light.

Yeah, I agree.
If the research of "faster than sound" would be 5K research points then the research of "Faster than Light" would be somwhere around 5B.
Who knows, maybe there are other barriers before the speed of light. Or maybe the speed of light is not a barrier. One thing is sure, we are light years away from an engine that come even close.