Thanks for the reply.
Do you know if SETI@Home's current user base is processing ALL data received, or just a portion of it?
That cost is extremely large, but I think (and hope) that some day we will do it. It probably won't happen in my life time. It's sort of starting to think that even...
SETI's current monitoring of RF is a noble cause (in my opinion). How can we hope to discover other intelligent life if we don't listen?
But as I understand it, it is sort of pathetic in terms of the handful of frequencies they actually monitor. So this lead me to these questions:
What...
Since there's plenty to talk about here, let's start with #1...
I don't understand why that is. Okay, light hits the pole and begins the trip to the view port. The light that is coming from the pole is going 1c, since light always goes 1c regardless of the velocity of the object it is...
Okay, for the moment, forget about time dilation.
Are the following descriptions accurate if you do not account for time dilation?
I've been going over and over this in my head and I can't figure out why any of these don't make sense.
Setting: A ship going .99c.
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Attached to the...
I'm learning about relativity and how going close to the speed of light can distort time, but I have questions/need for confirmation on a few things. After seeing a little video about I thought of some things and came to a few logical conclusions.
Okay. A light clock as seen at...
I was thinking, the amount of "gravity" a person feels on the surface of a planet is not only dependent on gravity, but also the centripetal force...
For example, if Earth spun 17.04 times as fast as it does now (i.e. 1 day = 1.4 hours) then anything on the surface of the Earth would...
Now that you know what a g is, also know that 5,100g would crush pretty much anything experiencing that magnitude of acceleration.
Check out this article on the effects of acceleration on the human body:
http://quest.nasa.gov/saturn/qa/new/Effects_of_speed_and_acceleration_on_the_body.txt...