Well that's embarrassing yes thank you for pointing that out I did indeed mean .99c. Ok awesome I think I've got the idea. Its certainly not the most intuitive thing..but its clicking. Although this reminds me of something interesting I read which I vaguely remember, which Ill pose a...
Awesome thank you for answering this. Ok I think I understand. Let me see if I have this right.
So from a person on the planet in galaxy A at the spaceport watching the rocket blast off, he will see the rocket accelerate away from the planet starting at 0mph and accelerate normally up to...
That was certainly an interesting read phinds! It did help straighten out a few misconceptions I had indeed. After extensive additional searching around on the internet however, I still can't seem to find an answer to my second question pertaining just to dark matter. Aside from a few...
I guess that means that what was stated in the video link I posted, as well as when I've heard other physicists say that the matter no longer exists once its fallen into the black hole as it has entirely been converted into energy manifested as space-time curvature, is a gross...
I sure do,
www.youtube.com/watch?v=oj1AfkPQa6M
Is the video I was watching the other day that made me think of this, but I also remember hearing Michio Kaku say the exact same thing. I have a bad feeling this is...an oversimplification however.
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It is my understanding that the matter originally contained in a dying star which formed a black hole has been entirely converted to energy in the form of space time curvature. In other words the matter no longer exists and all that is left is the curvature of spacetime. Aside from my...
I see, so if we consider the atom in terms of movement derived from a force being applied to it, it cannot be imagined as something like a baseball moving back and forth, but propagation of information throughout the field which still occurs at sub-luminal speeds. While indeed frustrating...
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It was some time ago on one of my visits to this forum where I saw a thought experiment about achieving faster than light communication using an impractically long pole of sorts. For example, practicality aside, if we were to construct a pole with the length of 1 light year, and have an...
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For some time now I have been absolutely fascinated with quantum mechanics. Unfortunately for me, I am well aware that what I know of QM comes from over-simplifications specific to educational reading material and videos where a core goal of publication was to avoid the actual...
I have a question pertaining to objects falling through the event horizon of a black hole.
It is my understanding that due to the immence gravity of a black hole and the way gravity affects the flow of time, that from the point of view of an observer at a safe distance from a black hole...