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Old 05-02-2007, 12:05 AM
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ok i hear that if you go the speed of light you will be everywhere at once. so if thats true could we go anywhere in the universe in basically no time at all?
i think it was a quote from einstien.
and i think the rules are different for things with mass.
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Old 05-02-2007, 12:12 AM
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you wouldn't be everywhere at once, who ever said that is wrong, the speed of light travels at about 6 trillion miles a year I think the universe so so so much bigger then that, it takes light billions of years to travel across the universe so you can clearly understand that you would not be everywhere at once.
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Old 05-02-2007, 12:20 AM
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You can't go at the speed of light, so the question is moot.

It is true that as you approach the speed of light, time slows down for you and the universe contracts (compared to someone at rest). So barring certain technical limitations, you could get anywhere in the universe in an arbitrarily short time. But you won't be everywhere at once.
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Old 05-02-2007, 12:20 AM
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What you are stating is a mathmatical problem with E=MCSquared. The equation states that as an object reaches the speed of light time stops and all distances drop to Zero. Now what we compute mathmatically and what we observe in nature are not always the same. That being said we do not know what happens when an object approaches the speed of light since objects with mass move differently through space than light. But if the equation holds true we once you hit the speed of light you will perpetually travel at the speed of light because time would have stopped for you.
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Old 05-02-2007, 12:41 AM
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yes. (according to lorentz transformation )
if you travel with velosity of light, time stops for you.
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Old 05-02-2007, 12:46 AM
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please think.
You can't be everywhere at once,
once you hit the speed of light you will travel at exactly that, speed of light or you might get lucky and find a way to travel faster than the speed of light.
Time doesnt stop
whoever sais that wrong, it doesn't slow down either, you are just looking at it at the same speed that light would travel to inform us of what happens during the time passes. You can very well go somewhere before light gets there and that's how you might say that you travel in the future, but that would be wrong too because you just see what has already happened (the light that has already gotten there before you got there it might even be actually the past getting to you because the light took so long to arrive at the designation) in a different timeframe. Now that is something to think about. LOL
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Old 05-02-2007, 01:40 AM
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that is false, the speed of light ain't like that, is very fast but not that fast, think about the light that comes from our sun, it takes like 8 minutes to go from the sun to your face, because the speed of light is just 300000 km per second, so it's not gonna get through the universe instantly... think of this, if our sun gets shutted down some day we will be in dark after 8 minutes... cool ah?
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