Breaking the Speed Limit

[Dru]

Did you know that you--you personally--are racing toward Mars at 23,000 mph?

[Dechristo]

And the 3,000,000,000,000 mph that we race around the Sun?

[Dechristo]

I think I need motion-sickness meds.

[Dru]

How many calories am I burning to race at 23,000 mph? Am I setting A NEW SPEED RECORD?

[Bill_Simpkins]

How many calories am I burning to race at 23,000 mph? Am I setting A NEW SPEED RECORD?

 

Gravitational potential energy is doing all of that work.

no work = no calories burned = fatass!

[Dru]

Just thinking about exercise increases one's metabolic rate by up to 10%.

[dbb]

did you notice that you're also accelerating at 9.8 m/s/s????!!!??

[Dru]

I have the potential to accelerate, but currently my velocity is unchanged.

[Bill_Simpkins]

You are accelerating now in space.

Velocity = speed and direction. Your direction is changing constantly though space.

However, you are still on Earth while you spray, so relative to the Earth, you're not accelerating.

 

This thread is going to drift to spacetime metrics and light cones....I just know it!

[Bill_Simpkins]

However if the Earth is the center of the Universe (barf),

you may not be accelerating.

[Dechristo]

Don't you know, we each are the center of the universe.

[archenemy]

I have the potential to accelerate, but currently my velocity is unchanged.

Are you sure it's unchanged? You are only a potential until measured, so you'd better check.

[Bill_Simpkins]

Don't you know, we each are the center of the universe.

 

We each are the center of OUR universe, not THE universe.

[Dechristo]

Don't you know, we each are the center of the universe.

 

We each are the center of OUR universe, not THE universe.

 

Are you taking into consideration the multi-dimensional facets of current Super-String Theory?

[Bill_Simpkins]

If you make a redshift map of the known universe, you can quickly tell that we are part of the spreading debris of an explosion, not at the source position of the debris.

It is impossible for each person to be the at the universeal "redshift null" at the same time, since the source is a singular point in space.

[archenemy]

The super-string theory is nothing compared to the

TOE

[archenemy]

If you make a redshift map of the known universe, you can quickly tell that we are part of the spreading debris of an explosion, not at the source position of the debris.

It is impossible for each person to be the at the universeal "redshift null" at the same time, since the source is a singular point in space.

You just read Big Bang from the dude who wrote The Code Book, didn't you?

[Dechristo]

The gravitational pull of a BLACK TOE is ponderous.

[Dechristo]

If you make a redshift map of the known universe, you can quickly tell that we are part of the spreading debris of an explosion, not at the source position of the debris.

It is impossible for each person to be the at the universeal "redshift null" at the same time, since the source is a singular point in space.

You just read Big Bang from the dude who wrote The Code Book, didn't you?

 

Yeah, but he's time/space biased.

[Dru]

If you make a redshift map of the known universe, you can quickly tell that we are part of the spreading debris of an explosion, not at the source position of the debris.

It is impossible for each person to be the at the universeal "redshift null" at the same time, since the source is a singular point in space.

 

 

On the contrary, there is no center or singular point. All points are expanding relative to each other because space itself is expanding. The only way there could be a point is if space had existed before the bang, which it didn't.

[Bill_Simpkins]

If you make a redshift map of the known universe, you can quickly tell that we are part of the spreading debris of an explosion, not at the source position of the debris.

It is impossible for each person to be the at the universeal "redshift null" at the same time, since the source is a singular point in space.

You just read Big Bang from the dude who wrote The Code Book, didn't you?

 

I have a degree in Physics, one in Math and I am a member of the American Astronomical Society. I don't read those quacky books other than for pure entertainment.

[Allan_Halsey]

And the 3,000,000,000,000 mph that we race around the Sun?

 

4500 times the speed of light? You don't know shit...

[archenemy]

If you make a redshift map of the known universe, you can quickly tell that we are part of the spreading debris of an explosion, not at the source position of the debris.

It is impossible for each person to be the at the universeal "redshift null" at the same time, since the source is a singular point in space.

You just read Big Bang from the dude who wrote The Code Book, didn't you?

 

I have a degree in Physics, one in Math and I am a member of the American Astronomical Society. I don't read those quacky books other than for pure entertainment.

 

You mean Quarky, right?

[Bill_Simpkins]

I like quarky books, especially about quarks. No I meant quacky. Maybe that word was genetically inheritated

[archenemy]

I like quarky books, especially about quarks. No I meant quacky. Maybe that word was genetically inheritated

 

get yer ducks in a row, dammit.