feline,

eigenvectors

MMMM, chocolate!

ahha!
feline *thinks laterally, inspired by Aleatoric saying chocolate*

if you are travelling at the speed of light, and were to emit tachyons, could you then see by the checkov radiation the emit as they escape your headlamps?

feline *wonders if anyone knows how to spell these words*
if not, this could get *very* confusing!

Cherenkov radiation

Actually, you should be able to see the cherenkov radiation from your example.

The side effect of spending *way* too much time with nose buried in science texts

Aleatoric - The side effect of spending *way* too much time with nose buried in science texts

feline *ooooom*
yummy cat beds!
you should see my bookcase

I have my own theory on light. That is, light does not travel in normal space, it travels in sub-space. All we see is an exit from sub-space at the point light is intercepted. This will also explain why light can be both a particle and a wave - this is determined by the method of interception. It explains why light always appears to travel at 186000mps - that is just the exit velocity/time in sub-space no matter how fast you go, your speed relative to sub-space will always be zero because the faster you go, the more sub-space folds in front of you. And also explains why light, a particle of zero mass, can be bent by gravity - gravity is just a 'dent' in sub-space which the light particle will follow (in sub-space) altering its trajectory.

Fuzzy Logic concludes that all other theories are nonsense and I'll take my Nobel prize in chocolate

I think I may be able to help




Oops meant to reduce that


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Jafo the omnipresent....has a modest ring to it....

Aleatoric - Is that even possible? Jafo the everpresent would merely fold the fabric of space and time and slip past any defence in order to fulfill his solemn duty Unlike Fuzzy, I'm not sure how easily we can distract him with chocolate

feline suspects we can distract him with "cnocolate"

Fuzzy Logic - I have my own theory on light. *snip* Fuzzy Logic concludes that all other theories are nonsense and I'll take my Nobel prize in chocolate

feline *raspberry*
you are just trying to distract us so you can sneak past and eat our chocolate!

Seeing how this thread spans the universe of time, space and chocolate Has there been a time-zone change for WC or have I always been 1-hour ahead of the time posted on a post. It's 8:50ish PM here EST.

It could be that this thread somehow bent the space time continuum and now daylight savings is screwed up...or it bumped you into 1 hour into the future. It also could of always been like that, and you're only noticing it now...but I'm leaning towards the space time continuum thing...

Jafo, the omnipresent watcher of the board, gets distracted by a bit of chocolate.

At the same time, a flashlight is accelerated to the speed of light.

Jafo doesn't see the flashlight, but, out of the corner of his eye, he sees the photons that might have been emitted by the flashlight (one of which hits the chocolate before Jafo can finish eating it).

In a fit of anger at the photon contaminated chocolate, Jafo throws the chocolate at the flashlight, hitting it and knocking it off course.

Essencay is pulled through the resulting rift in the space time continuum and placed in his chair one hour earlier.

While Essencay is posting about the sudden time difference, Jafo, realizing the severe consequences of a space time rift on this board (of all places), snatches Essencay back into his proper time and seals the rift. The flashlight with the now burned out bulb is returned to I.R. Brainiac, with stern instructions to not let it get away again.

And in the frozen lands of Nador, they were forced to eat Fuzzy's chocolate, and there was much rejoicing!