Recent content by p1l0t

Maybe? I mean it's just conjecture as far as I know at this point. I wouldn't say it's IMPOSSIBLE to warp spacetime because planets do it just by having mass. Can you do it enough on a smaller scale to reasonably move a spaceship somewhere you point it... no idea.

Don't you need like like 95% (within 5%) to have statistical significance? I've been out of school for awhile but I seem to remember like 5% chi being the goal usually. EDIT: I was probably thinking of the two-tailed test. Sorry for the wiki link and not an actual reference...

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So I just finished reading chapter one. I get the whole spacetime being a thing as a opposed to space and time. What I don't get is what the profound difference is of space separation having a negative value adds. I get that there is a difference but if it was explained why or what that is I...

So c = lightspeed tau = Circumference/Radius xyz = vectors or vector velocities? and delta is what, a derivative or some constant? Thanks for making my own thread out of this by the way whoever did that. I guess I asked a good question. I did get my book by Taylor/Wheeler but I'm day 5 of 9 in...

I assume Newton wasn't assuming you'd be traveling at near the speed of light...

Be careful what you wish for... No sane person would make such a decision unless it was the only hope left for humanity. Which is probably why we will wait until it's far too late.

Well but Mars is already not suitable for humans. If anything we should send 2/3 of the population there and then maybe Earth will have a chance of being preserved.

I say we get there BEFORE the beauracracy catches up.

No kindle version... Now I have to wait 2 days.

Now now, I didn't say I don't care. Time (not just in the proper sense) is bit of an obsession of mine. My math skills are nowhere near physicist level but I learn what I can. Actually after deriving the time dilation equation from Pythagoras I went down the dark path of trying to understand...

Well we could, but I think it's more of a backing up your data type mentality...

Exactly.

Renewable energy is a viable option but it doesn't matter if you pollute anyway. I guess my point we can live on submarines and space stations and just about anywhere in a simulated environment.

The real irony is that solar power is readily available and a realistic power source on Mars but the atmosphere is already full of CO2...