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Nice observation about c being constant, what's more important is meter definition relying on it as per SI 2.1.1.1 so we would no longer have our current way to measure distance if c became infinite. Well, we could go back to iron stick meter prototype and Michelson-Morley experiments.

woah, the board putting ="makc" in quote, correctly identifying me. how come it does not require me to lg in then?

makc wrote:Magneto in XXX movies, and how he was supposed to shine moving heavy things around

btw, similar reasoning could be applied to http://what-if.xkcd.com/3/

Aha, but this you require throwing out something we have good reason to believe is true is just a matter of interpretation. "Throwing out" is one way to look at it, another is just "extending the equation" in a way that it normally holds and is broken only under some weird condit...

Chris Peterson wrote:..introduces all sorts of fun physics that is much more real.

This remind me about that guy who wrote a paper about physics of Magneto in XXX movies, and how he was supposed to shine moving heavy things around. Imho this is taking these experiments one step too far but, neverless, still amusing.

Chris Peterson wrote:...with no basis in reality.

Good deal of content produced by humanity has no basis in reality ) In one word: imagination. Or do any of these papers have any more real basis? Yet, people keep thinking about it.

...if you would get a new consciousness; all your body parts would be new too! Basically; you would be a different person! :cry: :shock: Lol how do you know that did not happen last night in your sleep? Some alien could come and move you to their planet, quickly scan your body and then return you b...

so in effect he sort of "time travels" and experience same events again btw this situation gives pretty good insight into what would "actually" happen to time travellers, versus popular culture depictions :) what we see here is that although events happen twice according to our ...

Your version of teleportation doesn't seem instant, however, if your test subject is seeing things twice. he does so because he moves faster than light - so in effect he sort of "time travels" and experience same events again. ps - if we would instead move the guy exactly at c, he would s...

here is another observation about this Neverland: while our guy cannot send the beam there, he can reflect it from previously placed distant mirror o_O if this reflection happens on the edge of left blue area, the kight would cross the Neverland and enter the green area at the same time as it left :...

So I decided to post here in the memory of good old days, right. Not sure if you guys are up to discussing this kind of stuff these days, or if you cooked some stupid rule that forbids it, but anyway - join me in this thought experiment. Imagine that instant teleportation is possible. Take the simpl...

Turned one of these to interactive calculator: http://wonderfl.net/c/dfqa/fullscreen

Oh, the music thread. Discussing young boys singing? Let me drop my all times favorite:

hey, how many posts I need to break 2k with no ckam alias? let's post and see?

oh it's 96. well, a bit unlikely I think.

why don't you Google "moon time zones" and decide for yourself? Mainly because I am lazy, but also http://rationalsecurity.typepad.com/blog/images/2007/12/15/internettruth.jpg I kinda hoped for the answer from someone who actually knows it, not just paste the question into google. It answ...

However,

The concept of the LST is suggested by LunarClock.org

http://lunarclock.org/lunar-standard-ti ... itions.php

Does this site really have any authority?

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Does it have time zones like Earth, or does it use UCT time or whatever? Any international agreement on this, maybe?

or maybe god just sneezed, indeed

I was stuck by the reaction of the audience in the video. I thought the performance was very impressive; however, other than a few individuals, most of the audience seemed rather...unmoved. These days I see alot of people around that I can describe by Joe mama quote: "if it aint a pack of ciga...

Interview actually starts around 8:50

balalajka!