Viggen Posted July 23, 2006 Report Share Posted July 23, 2006 Physicist Costas Soukoulis and his research group at the U.S. Department of Energy's Ames Laboratory on the Iowa State University campus are having the time of their lives making light travel backwards at negative speeds that appear faster than the speed of light. That, folks, is a mind-boggling 186,000 miles per second Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tobias Posted July 24, 2006 Report Share Posted July 24, 2006 That's very interesting; i'm a physics student, so this sort of stuff is quite mind boggling I'll show that article to my physics teacher; she might find it interesting. When are the spaceships capable of reaching lightspeed going to be built lol Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moonlapse Posted July 24, 2006 Report Share Posted July 24, 2006 This is way over my head... reverse? Anyone know of a diagram to illustrate this? NM, theres one here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metamaterial Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gaius Octavius Posted July 24, 2006 Report Share Posted July 24, 2006 This is way over my head... reverse? Anyone know of a diagram to illustrate this? NM, theres one here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metamaterial I was puzzled for a while. The formula made everything clear. You realize, of course, that the spaceship will have to be made of opal and travel into the fourth dimension - but it will be traveling backwards in time. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moonlapse Posted July 24, 2006 Report Share Posted July 24, 2006 Traveling backwards in time, you mean the way Powdered Toast Man travels backward through the air? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_sail Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gaius Octavius Posted July 24, 2006 Report Share Posted July 24, 2006 Traveling backwards in time, you mean the way Powdered Toast Man travels backward through the air? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_sail Not really. You see the sun light hits the opal space ship at an oblique left angle and propels it off at an oblique right angle. This propels the space ship into the 4th dimension - backwards. The problem here is that the traveler would instantly revert into an amoeba. This problem may be resolved by shining a laser on the traveller, thus reversing the velocity of the change. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moonlapse Posted July 25, 2006 Report Share Posted July 25, 2006 Ahh, yes, thanks for clarifying that. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gaius Octavius Posted July 25, 2006 Report Share Posted July 25, 2006 Moonlapse, my purpose and my pleasure. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gaius Paulinus Maximus Posted July 28, 2006 Report Share Posted July 28, 2006 All you need to time travel is a flux capacitor, doc Emmit Brown perfected it with a little help from Marty Mcfly Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gaius Octavius Posted July 28, 2006 Report Share Posted July 28, 2006 All you need to time travel is a flux capacitor, doc Emmit Brown perfected it with a little help from Marty Mcfly Yes, yes, something was amiss. The famous flux capicitor! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moonlapse Posted July 29, 2006 Report Share Posted July 29, 2006 Flux, schmux. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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