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ok here is something I just thought of. I have a laser pointer and i can shine it on the wall and such. I can make the point go from the top of the wall to the bottom of the wall rather fast.
So i went outside and shined the point out in an open field from a balcony in a barn. The point zipped across the field covering a large distance in no time.
so then i put my laser pointer into the sky. I pointed it at the north star and then moved it over across the sky onto another star. Bother stars are equal distance from me but millions of miles away from each other.
Now replace my laser pointer with something that has a solid beam, like a light saber that is 1 billion miles long. Now place a vessel at the end of the light saber. With me on the ground or any stationary point I just have to move my end a little bit to make the other end move billions of miles in only a few seconds.
This works the same way that if a sniper is off just a degree of an angel , his bullet hits feet or yards off.
ideas?
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if you really had a large stick like that, it would require unimaginable amounts of force to move it like that, with one point stationary even, because the other end would have to travel those billions of miles.
wheres 2000AZ5.0GT to chime in? i want to see what he says about this, he really knows his ****.
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this is all theoretical that you had the money and time to build such a thing. not a light saber , but a big tower that moves on a henge
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this is all theoretical that you had the money and time to build such a thing. not a light saber , but a big tower that moves on a henge
think of newtons laws. either way, to put enough force on the tower or w/e to move it reasonably quickly, it would be so much force that the earth would move; theres no stationary point sturdy enough. but thats the least of the problems.
TRIGG FTW? (im really asking is trigonometry helpfull here? i THINK it might be)
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according to einstein it will be impossible to travel at the speed of light because when you go that fast time stops so the closer and closer you get to that point the slower time is and therefore it wont happen... in other words in other peoples perspective you will have stopped in time, but to you you will never reach that point
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according to einstein it will be impossible to travel at the speed of light because when you go that fast time stops so the closer and closer you get to that point the slower time is and therefore it wont happen... in other words in other peoples perspective you will have stopped in time, but to you you will never reach that point
I though people watching you stopped but you didnt. Like in batman with the clock king
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this is all theoretical that you had the money and time to build such a thing. not a light saber , but a big tower that moves on a henge
you're comparing light(weightless, massless, and material-less) to a big tower on a hinge
in space there is no gravity. but I would imagine a lot of torque twist.
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this is all theoretical that you had the money and time to build such a thing. not a light saber , but a big tower that moves on a henge
you're comparing light(weightless, massless, and material-less) to a big tower on a hinge
in space there is no gravity. but I would imagine a lot of torque twist.
Actually there is gravity in space.
any matter generates SOME degree of gravity , thats what causes it , existence of mass
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It's not weight you have to worry about, it's mass. If I weigh 160 lbs on earth and only 1/3 of that on the moon, I still have the same mass and it still takes the same amount of energy to get me moving, or to stop me.
Also theoretically the speed of light is relative, therefore exceeding the speed of light is impossible.
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