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1 If you drive in lightspeed and turn your light on, what would happen?
2 what is 2353746325/12465324576*0

You know these could have just gone into Lance's Mindless Ramblings.

mmm. you got a point..... please close

If anyone wants to listen I can answer the first... I have too many damn physics students as friends...

The basic answer is that it depeds where you are in relation to the light source.

if you wait for just a few minutes so I can find something to sleep on, you can go ahead

Yeah, won't be a quick explanation, I am afraid. Basic relativity isn't actually beyond the scope of people without Masters degrees (or in my case, without any sort of decent qualification at all), but is IS rather cumbersome.

tell us!

Um, ok. In a little bit, though. I'm chatting with friends and I don't want to vanish from the convo while I type it all out!

1) Bascially you won't even be able to switch your lights on!
Apart from the fact it would be impossible to hit the speed of light, even if you got damn close, your weight would be so heavy you would probably get crushed within yourself as your weight would approach infinety.
Why do you gain weight when you travel REALLY fast? Easy: E=MC^2
Since you would be travelling really fast - you would have masses of kentic energy which according to einstein has to be stored somewhere - and it is - as weight.

2) Easy: Infinety.

2353746325/12465324576*0 = 2353746325/0
Any number divded by 0 is equal to infinety.

Right, if anyone quotes hyper-advanced physics at me to dispute this I will cry. This is the basic outline, ok?

Ok, three things must ALWAYS be born in mind when talking about this sort of thing.

1. Nothing can go faster than light speed
2. Light always moves at lightspeed
3. Speed is relative.

The first is a given

The second is important to bear in mind- unless acted upon by some force, light always goes at lightspeed. You don't get slow light. You have a lightbeam, lightspeed is what it wants to go at

The third is vital. For example: The Earth is meant to move at about some 10,000 miles an hour. But that is only relative to the sun. To US the Earth does not move at all. Who is right? Both! There is no central point that we measure speed from, no 'zero' speed area. ALL speed is relative. Relative to the centre of the galaxy, the sun and all the planets are moving at huge spees. Relative to us that movement does not exist. Driving on a motorway, the people in the car with you are not moving at all. Relative to the people coming the other way in cars, they are moving at nearly 100mph or more. BOTH are correct; it's all relative.

Ok, so, once that is bourne in mind... here are some examples about speed that help answer this.

Imagine you are on a bike chasing a car. The car will get away from you, in all probability. Logically, though, the harder you pedal, the faster you will go, and the less quickly the car will escape you. Fair enough, right?

Now, imagine you are not chasing a car but a beam of light. Remember that the speed is always relative to you, and the light beam always moves at lightspeed. This means that no matter HOW fast you pedal, the lightbeam will always get away from you just as quickly! Is the lightbeam speeding up to do this? No! It's just moving away from you at the same relative speed- lightspeed!

Hang on. What about your friend standing at the starting line? How does that work for him? If the lightbeam is getting away from you, on the bike, at lightspeed, then surely it will look to him as if it is moving at MORE than lightspeed! Well, actually, no. To him it will look like it is moving at lightspeed from him. The rules still apply.

Hang on. Doesn;t that mean that the light beam is moving at different speeds for each of you? Well, no. For both of you it is moving at lightspeed. But what WILL happen is this- the guy on the bike will see the lightbeam hit and illuminate objects BEFORE the person on the starting line does, by a fraction.

Doesn't that defy common sense? Well, it seems to. One of the basic tenets of relativity is that two people will see the same thing in different ways. The importsnt thing is that the same events still happen, the lightbeam IS there, but you don't see it all happening at the same time.

So, to return to the question... we need two people to answer it. One in the car, and one watching the car drive by.

For the person in the car, nothing odd happens. The headlights are not moving, relative to him! So when he turns them on, the lightbeam will happily move away from him at lightspeed just as it would on a motorway.

But for the person watching it drive by.... the car (and so the headlights) are moving at lightspeed. So where does the light go? It goes nowhere. With the car moving at lightspeed already the lightbeam cannot improve on it. Therefore this person will see no light coming out the headlights.

Which returns to my basic point, what happens depends where you are in relation to the light source!

Mad, isn't it?

All of this, of course, ignores the fact that you can neither move at lightspeed nor observe any object doing so!

thanks for that, I didn't fall asleep and it was actually quite interesting!

*wakes up*
is it over yet?

Mujjafa,I have a Q :
1.does "/" meens divided by.
In that case the answer to the second Q is 0.

And the answer to the second Q does not have importance because Raz and Ushgarak gave us an excelent demonstration

Raz gave us a literal answer there which I basically noted with my closing comment.

My head hurts!!!

Try have a brain fitted.

Don't need one of those, I've got a computer!!

Just count yourself lucky you didn't have to attend those headhurting physics lessons!

I did do, just don't remember my head hurting like that!!

Pay attention next time.

There's not gonna be a next time!

*checks Corran's schedule*

It says right here

6AM-12PM "Physics 5001"

DRIIIINGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGG

Damn - missed class, oh well, think I'll go for a drink instead!!

No, you'll go to the headmaster's office. Or in this case: Gundy's basement.

I'm ready for him.

http://www.forum-smilies.com/brutal_35.gif

The pain and suffering he'll experience...

Wait...what does it say on my schedule?

*checks Rex's schedule*

http://www.forum-smilies.com/fun_48.gif

It appears you've finished with that drink that had the experimental laxative in it.

Oh...I have to take a shit...oh...

Remove the butplug first.

I'm not getting THAT close to him.

On second thought, that is rather gross. http://www.theunholytrinity.org/cracks_smileys/otn/puke/repuke.gif

Well then we have to go back to asking really stupid questions, like the topic says.

So - back to the 3PO thing. Why did he tell the stormtroopers.."they're heading for the prison level. If you hurry you might catch them"

Maybe he knew they were already on their way back.

I'm not buying that. That sounds like something Obi Wan would have said.

Only from your point of view.

See ? 3PO could have said they were heading to Tarkins' bathroom or something..

hmm kind off kinky if you ask me.
Bathing hour with 3PO

I'll pass on the oil bath thank you.

Oh come on! I thought everyone knew that C3PO was working for the EMpire all along! Nothing but a big old spy!

Well it sure sounded that way.

3PO is smart , it got them of his back

Nah, he DOES work for the Empire. After all, Mr. Empire aka Vader made him. Too bad he's too dumb to realise how to do that, but he had a clear moment there. I think it was the influence of being in the presence of his old master.

So the secret is finally revealed...

Yup. Long live the PT... I guess.

Did you hear about Anthony Daniels charging some outrageous amount for his autograph ? Apparently a bunch of little kids waiting hours in line only to find out they couldn't afford it .

Really???? No more oil baths for him.

I've gotta go dig out the article....

Okay. Mean while I'll take a http://www.maverickreport.com/images/smilies/urinate.gif

He must have some Scotish blood in him that cheap bastards

I'd show him the money, get him to sign a picture and then run away..........Yoink!

Run away ? And how far do you think you'd get, Mech dear ?

easily away from daniels if he runs like C-3po

everyone would run away from 3PO actually

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well you should run or he'd call for his trade federation droids

wich you can politly call to step aside and they'll do it

That's the good thing about droids. You can reprogram them to serve you instead of the enemy.

If you can get to the control center of course.

yeah just try

not in AOTC though

Why doesn't a driod just program other droids to follow him?
Discuss amongst yourselves!

I think OBI-WAN might have the point covered Tex!!!

Actually it sounded to me like Obi Wan made that statement in a rhetoric sense.

He did

Well thank you for agreeing with me.

of course

Gundy's always right.http://members.lycos.nl/Dodotje/smilies/pray.gif

Mesa luv yu !!! (no lesbianism intended of course)

You are my online idol!

Gee, I've never been an idol before.

So I just stand real still and scare the natives, right ?

well you get used to be an idol

Do tell !!

Do drink some more

*gets notebook, waits for idol advice from finti*

thats going to be a long time before you'll get them
http://www.lucasforums.com/images/smilies/nono.gif

No, No she mau get the advice from Finti quite soon.....it just may not be good advice.

I got a u instead of a y.

That was very profound Corran. Just because someone gives you advice doesn't mean that it's good.

I'm sorry, and there was me trying to be all inconspicuous and all!!!!

I wanna buy a consonant.

and I want a big house with a pool

well Gundy if you want idol advice then

Like teenage heat
And carnival cheats
With your heart on your sleeve
Well you know you wanna run
You won't hide
And you jump like a son of a gun

Do not stand in the shadows
Do not stand in the shadows
Do not stand in the shadows
Do not stand in the shadows" Billy Idols Dont stand in the shadows

I guess we shouldn't stand in the shadows then

mah has the amazing ability to take all the nonsense posted around here and condense it down to a simple sentence.

Go mah !!!

yay!
whereas yerss takes simple things and complicates it

how do you mean panda?

oi I'm not a panda!

The shadow will get you then.

Pandas are endangered; you're not.

Dimmy closed the fun threads.... wahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

I AM endangered! there's only one of me left!

*mass copies mah with click of a mouse*

shoots, the copy function won't work.

now, how do you make all those bowing smilies?

dunno...don't care neither

place http://members.lycos.nl/Dodotje/smilies/pray.gif in
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Maybe everything is endangered. . .

not for long

why do I have the strange feeling of an axe lureing behind me..

yes why do you

where's the nearest exit-door?

right under the axe.....

and nearest window?

behind me

*in C3PO-voice* I'm doomed

yes you are

where is that ToMacco Smacking Machine when you need it?

I'm over here, using it on yerssot. Why, you need to borrow it ?

yes please!

Well if you want to slap yourself go ahead, but you wont escape the axe

*Lauren cackles madly*

I have the finti and yersott and mah and Tomacco smacking machines! You're all doomed!

*More mad cackling*

ow please, mah made those and he placed a chip in it so you can't smack either him or me with it

my axe is no machine

darn, where are those droidekas?

they went into the ventilationshaft to snuggle

the what can stop me from getting decapitated?

buy some beer it might help

It'll make the pain less severe.

I'd recommend whiskey. And lots of it.

Irish coffe is nice, yes that will help

Lovely.

*sits down to nice irish coffee with finti*

Brandy is the best.

And this one's off topic and over 100. Closing.