Strategy guide?

DirectorTsaarx · #1 February 28th, 2001, 04:44 PM

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Originally posted by Darwin:
You can't accelarate a squirrel to the speed of light squared becuase matter cannot reach the speed of light and nothing can exhead it. In this case the speed of light is just being used as a number not as a speed. Why it works out to exactly the speed of light squared is one of those quantum physic things that I don't know.

Well, we can't do this with current technology; there's some dissent on this matter in the physics community. I found an article not too long ago that mentioned an experiment where a particle was accelerated beyond the speed of light. HOWEVER (and this is a tricky point), scientists still believe INFORMATION cannot travel faster than light. So the particle can be accelerated and do damage, but it can't be used to provide FTL communication.

As for the speed of light being an important constant, it happens to be the speed of all electromagnetic waves; and, scientists believe, the speed of all forces in general. In other words, when a particle exerts a force on another particle, that force travels at 3x10^8 meters per second between the particles.

BTW - I'm posting this in a new thread, so we can stop cluttering up "Strategy" with "Theoretical Physics"...

Suicide Junkie · #2 February 28th, 2001, 07:41 PM

I don't think so. If a particle could move faster than light, you could just write information on it, and info would be going the same speed.

Besides, the information 'I hate you and you're gonna die now' would reach the guy who got hit by that particle faster than light.

Alpha Kodiak · #3 February 28th, 2001, 09:42 PM

You are all forgetting the ultimate squirrel launcher... Bulwinkle!

PvK · #4 June 28th, 2002, 05:12 AM

E=MC^2 is for total matter->energy conVersion, but that is not what happens in a thermonuclear explosion. You only get E=MC^2 in something like a matter-antimatter reaction.

PvK

Phoenix-D · #5 June 28th, 2002, 06:11 AM

Which happens to be the case originally being considered in this rather old post.

[ June 28, 2002, 05:11: Message edited by: Phoenix-D ]

capnq · #6 June 28th, 2002, 07:02 PM

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I can't take any credit for the attached

..because there isn't anything attached.

The strategy guide which Dubious is so modest about compiling is still available here (link). (scroll down to 10 Apr 2001)

Grandpa Kim · #7 June 29th, 2002, 06:10 AM

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Total conVersion is a little more than I can manage, but being a carpenter I do have chisels, so I CAN split the atom. Here I go.... everybody duck....

NOW!!!!

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