I'm trying hard to wrap my head around this.

How does light even occupy the same universe as us? It's just mad. Why do we put up with it?

Huh, so you see a tunnel of light when you approach c, I find this intriguing.

It's crazy how we know this stuff without actually GOING this fast.

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It's been many years since I studied physics. What does the lowercase gamma in the bottom left represent?

>> ^garmachi:

It's been many years since I studied physics. What does the lowercase gamma in the bottom left represent?




Me to, I think the answer is in here, but eff if I can remember.

Edit: ok I think it is the "Lorentz factor" . 7.089 Lorentz factor is 0.990 ratio to the speed of light (or very very close)

>> ^GeeSussFreeK:

>> ^garmachi:
It's been many years since I studied physics. What does the lowercase gamma in the bottom left represent?


Me to, I think the answer is in here, but eff if I can remember.
Edit: ok I think it is the "Lorentz factor" . 7.089 Lorentz factor is 0.990 ratio to the speed of light (or very very close)


Lorentz sounds like it to me too. There are only a few other choices it could be, but I don't see them really relating very well to the what's in the video (gamma brightness for the "video", or gamma radiation factor from nuclear sciences--both I highly doubt).

Lorentz transformations (which is linked above by @GeeSussFreeK ) would be the way you would calculate many of the dilation effects caused by relativistic effects traveling near the speed of light.

Traveling at the speed of light you would have a pinpoint in front and in back. The light up front, the size of a point and basically nothing behind, as it would be shifted to very low levels of radiation. If you're going at the speed of light you wouldn't be doing any calculations as time has stopped, but from your vantage point everything happens at the same speed. As you slow down though far from the speed of light, in less than a second you instantly see things change all around you depending on how long of course you had been going at the speed of light (if you had been going that speed for 10 years you won't see too much; but, what about one billion years--can you imagine...).

But, to you a second was still one second even at that speed, or any speed, even as time slowed down the closer you got to the speed of light. Everyone else will of course still count their seconds the same as well. Hence, relativity.

If you did go that fast, yet had mass you would be facing some HUGE problems. At the front you would find a tremendous amount of energy (I'd guess all of it would be shifted to the highest energy level; one huge one-dimensional jet of gamma radiation) and at infinite amounts. In other words, it's impossible to do it. that is why a lot of Sci-Fi uses space warping/tearing/etc... to connect yourself to another place, like a wormhole; or bend space in front and back of you like Star Trek and use warp.

Gotta love Einstein and his little revelation--and all revelations in science or otherwise that add to the understanding, the expanses created, broadening our horizons, windows to the wondrous mountains of the mind put into view, and all of reality's grandeurs still there to be conquered and our dreams explored. It makes this world just a bit more interesting and worth bothering to get up every morning and go about our daily routines.

/corny

Needs an engine update.

>> ^GeeSussFreeK:

Huh, so you see a tunnel of light when you approach c, I find this intriguing.
Yeah, just like when you drive through an actual tunnel. Does that intrigue you too? Maybe the road to heaven leads under the Hudson River. Who knew Weehawken, NJ was Paradise?

>> ^Fletch:

>> ^GeeSussFreeK:
Huh, so you see a tunnel of light when you approach c, I find this intriguing.
Yeah, just like when you drive through an actual tunnel. Does that intrigue you too? Maybe the road to heaven leads under the Hudson River. Who knew Weehawken, NJ was Paradise?


More that certain studies of mind have shown a seeming quantum nature to thought, specifically conciseness. That mind could be an entanglement of many different, yet simultaneous locations in space and time. What that all means, fuck if I know, just find it interesting that traveling the speed of light approximates certain peoples near death experiences. Not saying it is significant, only interesting. Or as Spock would say "fascinating". My mind sorts information of "likes" first and "relevance" second.