Matrix countdowns

Originally posted by Crash_Overload
WOAH..... Korri is married to Keanu...........

lol i wish 😆

I only realized I wrote that after it did write it

Originally posted by The Omega
SimplePriest> or November 5th 2103 or…
No, you’d still age while onboard the ship. You can’t escape aging trough good old Albert. However, if we did the stunt mentioned above, everybody else would’ve aged 48 days, while we’d only have aged a day. But the time elapsed would, for us onboard the ship, have been nothing BUT a day.

about that year: more like 2800, btw 😛

Korri, I love Keanu now...

Therefore... he's MINE!!! RaWr!!!! 😈

💃 go 'nana go 'nana GO GO! 💃

You have taken a VERY, VERY DANGEROUS POSITION, CandyKoRn...NOBODY cames between Korri and Keanu....You're gonna have to settle for someone else, like the KEYMAKER...HAHAHAHA

Well, maybe close-to-speed-of-light travels will never be possible. I’ll settle for a wormhole then. However, they seem to collapse if they’re about to turn into Time-machines.
Where IS that Delorian??

Rysdigital> Not for you it wouldn’t. But relative to an observer NOT on the ship time would stop on it. Go read those stories about two astronauts close to the event horizon of a black hole.
t’ = t 1/(sqrt(1-v^2/c^2))

Let's just keep thinking of ways to get to Nov 5th. Trust me, then we WILL get there 😄

that's why it's called relativity.

you can debate about this; time outside 'the space ship' (😛) will go infinitely fast relative to your own experience. this raises the question: can you experience time if the world around you ages infinitely fast. a question which has no answer 🙂

Rysdigital> Well, your so-called eigentime (time as it ticks on your clock), will still just tick away as always. Time onboard the space-ship (not everything around you, everything OUTSIDE the spaceship) is your eigentime.
Mathematically speaking, time outside goes from being a real to being a complex number. So personally I don’t think the c-stunt will ever be possible, unless you find a way of achieving zero mass.

photons ! 💃 explain how this has anything to do with complex numbers though? don't think it does. (i² = -1 stuff, can't see the connection) - i know the values will no longer be real (infinity isn't a real number)

Rysdigital> Yep, those. But who’d you get baryonic matter to loose it’s mass in a way that made it possible to recreate the exact same matter?
It wouldn’t be much fun zipping past the opening of Revolutions as photons. They don’t experience time, so it would be “zack!” “Damn it’s already the end of the Universe. I missed The Matrix Revolutions.” 😄

yea, sucks to be a photon, how boring would that be 😛 look up, i edited my previous post 😕

Rysdigital> Okay, let me explain it a little better. Let’s say the spaceship reaches velocity c (just for arguments sake, matter can’t do that, only massless objects). Relative to the spaceship it looks like time outside speeds up to infinity. Relative to an observer outside, time stops onboard the spaceship.
Time goes complex due to the gamma-factor, if an objects velocity gets greater than the speed of light.
So the photons sneaked into this, as the only objects who CAN travel at the speed of light.
Not faster, not slower.
Better? 🙂

well, no. still don't get how that ties into complex number theory. i'll look up that gamma factor stuff tomorrow; good thing i study computer science, not physics 😉

edit: gamma factor is just a fancy word for 'time dilation effect'?

Here:
t_lab would be tme outside the spaceshiip, t_rest the time onboard the space-ship, c is itself, and v is the velocity with which the space-ship travels. Now try to have v > c.

ah, doh, didn't really look at the equation you gave earlier, stupid me 🙂 got it, square root of 1 - x (x>1) 💃 in the denominator.

It's okay 😄
t’ = t 1/(sqrt(1-v^2/c^2)) looks more like an "ugly hack" than math!

agreed. o well, i don't like math that much anymore, since it got so 'difficult' i actually had to study for it 😛

Tsk!Tsk! Math is the language of the Universe, as one of my professors once said.

well, come to think of it, i do like the theoritical courses in computer science best. like mathematical programming and stuff. i'm just a lazy bastard :/ there are just too much things that are more fun and relaxing than studying, sadly.

well, that went over my head, considering im still in Calc 2, however, i have a few questions, Mrs. Wizard...
1) Dont photons have mass? i thought that they did...
2) what if we were to control antimatter, to cause a rift and/or huge explosion to force us to c...
3) would we be able to use anti-quarks for these purposes?
4) what's baryonic matter?
5) there isnt a way to achieve zero mass, because if you were to achieve it, everytime you start moving faster, wouldn't you achieve mass again?