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Kawamura
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Taidon said:
I dunno. I can hate someone but still be fair with them.
And that's a silly way of putting it. As a student of astro and the like, I don't run around going 'it's useless because (according to current theory) the universe is going to keep expanding until the only thing left is a constant level of radiation'.
dammit, I cant find my copy of New Theory of Everything.
If humans cant break past the speed of light then we would never be able to get across the universe. Even if we did however, if the universe continues to expand eventually there will be a point where it would be impossible to go galaxy to galaxy.
if I sound like an Idiot, forgive me. I cant fully recall what I read. Astronomy is just an intrest, and I am largely ignorant on many thing concerning it.
If humans cant break past the speed of light then we would never be able to get across the universe. Even if we did however, if the universe continues to expand eventually there will be a point where it would be impossible to go galaxy to galaxy.
if I sound like an Idiot, forgive me. I cant fully recall what I read. Astronomy is just an intrest, and I am largely ignorant on many thing concerning it.
Like I said, Im still very ignorant.
I do like the I idea or sending out a computer in space so fast it can do an infinite number of equations in a finite amount of time.
but various problems go along with this, and most likely it will never happen.
I do like the I idea or sending out a computer in space so fast it can do an infinite number of equations in a finite amount of time.
but various problems go along with this, and most likely it will never happen.
Kawamura
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The faster you send something moving relative to us, the slower it goes (relative to us).
So, say my computer does 100 eqns/sec in my reference frame. If I send the computer out at three-quarters the speed of light, it'll only look like he's doing about 66 eqns/sec.
Of course, he'll still be doing the same rate in his frame, his journey will just take less time in his reference frame to balance it out.
So, say my computer does 100 eqns/sec in my reference frame. If I send the computer out at three-quarters the speed of light, it'll only look like he's doing about 66 eqns/sec.
Of course, he'll still be doing the same rate in his frame, his journey will just take less time in his reference frame to balance it out.
But if you send out a computer to do the equations by itself, and it tries to relay the information back to us on earth. wouldnt our machine thats reciving have to speed up also??? If the computer in space is sending out an infinite amount of information, wouldnt the computer on earth have to be capable of getting the infinite amount instantly.
Kawamura
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That's why I included an actual number. If you're relaying equations back from the computer going at .75c, it's going to be pumping out 66 equations/sec in our time frame. 100 equations/sec in it's time frame, but the time spent will be less.
I'm unsure where the infinite comes in, though, as all computers give a finite amount, regardless of speed.
I'm unsure where the infinite comes in, though, as all computers give a finite amount, regardless of speed.