Thinking about cosmology and particle physics...

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  1. C-Sniper

    C-Sniper Stop Trolling this space Ądmins!

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    Well in quantum physics, time is no longer a constant. This was the part I forgot when I was drinking.
     
  2. Nexxo

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    ^ sig quote right there. :p
     
  3. Burnout21

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    I suddenly feel the need to travel at the speed of light.

    If time slows the faster you travel, then assume I bite into the most perfect bacon sandwich just before the light barrier that taste will be extended and I shall enjoy the bacon for longer.
     
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    If only it worked that way.

    Unfortunately if you are going just shy the speed of light, time will appear normal to you, but if you were to look around you, you would see everything happening a lot faster.

    Example:

    If you were to go on a rocket ship travelling half the speed of light, and you were to travel out into space 1 year according to your watch, and then back to earth; you would find that on earth, four years would have elapsed compared to the two years that you experienced.


    Also on a more humorous note...

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  5. xrain

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    Just another thought on quasars, that if they are indeed proto-galaxies, shouldn't we be able to see most of the in between stages from proto-galaxy, to a mature galaxy?


    Since we are able to observe objects from the time of quasars up to current time, we should be able to see at least a little transition as we get closer to us.

    I'd be curious as to what the dark-matter distribution looks like around quasars, that might be something that could give us insight into what is going on.


    I am personally fond of the idea that we are able to only see a mere fraction of the total universal structure, and the reason why we can't, quite understand why everything in the universe is accelerating away from each other, is because we are attempting to understand the movements of a extraordinarily massive structure by looking at how a tiny fraction moves.

    Say for instance that we are only able to see our closest neighbors in this end of our spiral in our galaxy, and say the Andromeda galaxy finally collides with the milky way. We could only observe inexplicable accelerations in the stars near to us, and start to wonder where in the heck are the stars getting all this energy from? It must be some new "Dark Energy" That we are unable to detect as of yet.
     
  6. Plugs

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    at that speed your sandwich will be much shorter as well (to an outside observer)
     
  7. Burnout21

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    wouldn't bother me, the sandwich would remain normal to me! Come here bacon! nomnomnomnom
     

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