travel at the speed of light?

isn't is speculated that if items are moving faster then the speed of light then time itself would start to revert???

Also I doesn't think traveling with the speed of light is a way to explore distant star systems, creating a wormhole would be a easier way of transport in theory.

hmm.. i guess i didnt read that thoroughly enough to understand. what it would when the signal got its destination? ima bit confused

Originally posted by DigiMark007
I always had this idea of making constructs out of light that can store information. Let the light travel to a certain place, encoded with the information to construct life (human or otherwise) or even just to relay messages. All life needs to continue is something that can replicate itself (like our genes do that drive our construction and reproduction), and replicating, information-storing light entities would have a better chance at survival and expansion than we do since we're only relegated to one planet.

Of course, this would require the ability to maintain coherence to a light structure without some vessel to hold it in (which wouldn't survive lightspeed travel). So that's where the science falls apart utterly.

My answer to that was to have a space station that shoots a light beam out into space, with a specific destination, with the information encoded directly into the pattern of lightwaves that it sent. The pattern would repeat itself continually, so that if parts of the signal are lost among residual radiation signatures or hit space debris, the pattern won't be lost. Like a cpu progam on a repeating loop, but written into light beam patterns.

Then the signal could transmit as long as we're here on earth to upkeep the station.

Still complete nonsense, but my musings are fun diversions for me at least.

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Originally posted by Kumar
😱 that was quite possibly the most nonsensical statement i have ever heard. I lol'd hard.
reminded me of this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lj3iNxZ8Dww

This post that makes you laugh was from a kid, trying his best I presume. Don't you feel a little low life, laughing at a kid? Give him a break.

As of right now, we cannot travel at the speed of light, this is what I believe, because would we not die from the impact of speed? However, perhaps someday that may change.

Originally posted by Cornlady
As of right now, we cannot travel at the speed of light, this is what I believe, because would we not die from the impact of speed? However, perhaps someday that may change.

You are close to being right. The reason people can not travel at the speed of light is because the closer that person would get to light speed, the greater their mass becomes (think of it like they become heavier), and eventually, they become infinitely massive- which keeps them from reaching light speed. Light itself HAS no mass, so it CAN go that fast.

I hope I explained it for you... I cut a few corner science-wise to do it, but it's essentially the answer.

Originally posted by Cap'n Happy
You are close to being right. The reason people can not travel at the speed of light is because the closer that person would get to light speed, the greater their mass becomes (think of it like they become heavier), and eventually, they become infinitely massive- which keeps them from reaching light speed. Light itself HAS no mass, so it CAN go that fast.

I hope I explained it for you... I cut a few corner science-wise to do it, but it's essentially the answer.

I don't seem to be aware of the part of infinite mass.

Originally posted by Cap'n Happy
Light itself HAS no mass, so it CAN go that fast.

I would usually let that statement go without pouncing on it because that is true in practice.

but you are using it to imply that mass can never go the speed of light...at all. Like it might as well be a law of physics. Light has mass, bro.

Originally posted by DigiMark007
I always had this idea of making constructs out of light that can store information. Let the light travel to a certain place, encoded with the information to construct life (human or otherwise) or even just to relay messages. All life needs to continue is something that can replicate itself (like our genes do that drive our construction and reproduction), and replicating, information-storing light entities would have a better chance at survival and expansion than we do since we're only relegated to one planet.

Of course, this would require the ability to maintain coherence to a light structure without some vessel to hold it in (which wouldn't survive lightspeed travel). So that's where the science falls apart utterly.

My answer to that was to have a space station that shoots a light beam out into space, with a specific destination, with the information encoded directly into the pattern of lightwaves that it sent. The pattern would repeat itself continually, so that if parts of the signal are lost among residual radiation signatures or hit space debris, the pattern won't be lost. Like a cpu progam on a repeating loop, but written into light beam patterns.

Then the signal could transmit as long as we're here on earth to upkeep the station.

Still complete nonsense, but my musings are fun diversions for me at least.

You want to holographically encode a really big virus? That's not terribly unrealistic.