Recent content by mike777

You are so certain the rules are correct, seriously?? But apologies, I hadn't realized you are the olympic team who know everything and will solve all the mysteries, I will go and find a physics for dummies forum where hopefully they will be slightly friendlier than you lot! (no offence, that's...

Ok apologies, i am a novice so just trying to ask things that you guys may be able to enlighten me about, I can understand why hypothetical stuff leads to nowhere but it just helps me get my head around it all by thinking at extremes. I was going to eventually get round to asking if that meant...

I've already got in trouble before by using the light's point of view! Ok how about a place outside our frame of reference where the photon departs and arrives instantaneously because time is not a factor. Would that be the natural order of things were it not for our universe construction - ie...

Ok, well I would define time as an event that takes place after another, for example a photon starting in one place of the universe and ending up at another, if no time is involved then it would exist in both and all places?

'The concept of time is meaningless' - therefore light would move instantaneously if it weren't being slowed by our type of universe?

Because time slows down at the speed of light does then light itself potentially travel at almost infinity per zero seconds? (trying to leave aside relativity and gravity issues for a moment, so just theoretically?) Is that then the real reason why nothing can go faster than light - ie...

From the perspective of light itself would it be traveling at almost infinity speed if we removed any other variables?

Thanks. Yes I suppose that's what I was getting at with Little Ted thinking he was traveling faster than light - can we actually be sure about anything ourselves with any more certainty than Little Ted if we can only depend on own frame of reference? Distant galaxies appear to be receding at...

Many thanks for all your replies. Little Ted and I will study special relativity and hopefully post more concise questions in future!

Ok fine, i deserve that. Ted's son though, Little Ted, still thinks in a simplistic manner that he travels faster than the speed of light because he calculates a planet is 5 light years away but it then only takes him 5 minutes to get there. He will come to Earth and swear until he's blue in...

That's great, thanks for all your replies. I'm very happy with that explanation, although Ted has emailed to say he's still confused about something... his speedometer calculates his current speed by looking at the time and the various known markers that it passes by on the journey and...

Apologies if this is a really stupid question but I've never seen it satisfactorily explained although that is perhaps because it is a really stupid question! Bill stays on earth, Ted flies off into space traveling randomly at or very near the speed of light. He's back after a few days and...