What Can Go Faster Than Light? - Light, of course!

When I was young I was so quick I could switch the light off and be in bed before it went out...

Now that is spooky as my colleague said this on Friday. I am not kidding man, where did you get that expression from?

I think it was Alan Shearer recounting a tale of one of the old footballing legends Tom Finney perhaps?

Of course you could just walk faster than C .

Yeh...but only at night

And in a graveyard when I was a young tad.

I have been in a black hole, as has anyone that has flown into Chicago O'hare Airport on a Friday afternoon in the winter time.

That airport sucks up everthing, time stands still, light is trapped and all sorts of nasty gravitational and relativistic effects occur.... Not even Dante could imagine such a hell....

(Paris De Gaul and London Heathrow have similar effects)

Yes, you are right!!! And then there is the Timothy Leary underground wormhole at the center of the singularity!

Time doesn't quite stand still. That would ruin their fun at having you run at full speed, carrying 3 pieces of carry-on luggage, from one hub to another only to have the attendant close the gate ten feet in front of you and say "there's another flight tomorrow"

That would be Pittsburgh... at O'Hare they cuss at you, but would let you on the plane, pull four or five meters away from the gate, and then time comes to a standstill as you sit on the tarmack in an inteminable snow storm... not able to take off, but somehow not allowed to return to the terminal either....

At Greater Pitt, you get to your gate only to find USAir got all the luggage there but lost the plane in Cleveland.

ROFLOL

What about the Oozalum Bird..........I reckon he travels faster than the speed of light

Also the Road Runner ..........................and WHAT about Speedy Gonzales.......arriba,arriba,arriba.

Didnt know there was even service to Cleveland.

That is known as an "on time departure". The aircraft left the gate at its' scheduled time and is reported to the FAA as such. Take offs are not scheduled and are subject to all kinds of time warping phenomena.

Yes but only with the aid of dilithium crystals.

<<Dilithium is one substance that can safely combine matter and anti-matter into a stable stream.

The Crystal becomes the focal point where the matter/anti-matter injectors fire. The crystals then combine and refract the beam in to the Warp Core. Kinda like the reverse of a light prism. Instead of only one beam of light hitting the prism and refracting into mutiple beams of light.. it does the exact opposite. Takes 2 beams of in-compatable energy, combines them to make a single stable beam of energy and fires into the warp core chamber... and voila, you have warp power!! I know that it would be possible for the deuterium ions to "channel" through the crystral, provided it is very pure and exactly aligned. The antideuterium is the problem, since it is supposed to have the opposite charge (negative). This would mean the ions would not behave like deuterium and would (under the same conditions) possibly collide with the dilithium nuclei: boom! This is where the TNGTM makes a nice suggestion to create a condition (high frequency excitation) to make the material porous also for antimatter. Another possibility is to accelerate them to a high speed, so that the deflection in the crystal is minimized.>>

Any way, that is what I was told

Me thinks you and Case are watching too much Startrek.

Ok we have been found out. "Scott me up Beamy"

..........that's right case..................the earth sucks.......What's all ths gravity crap.

what can go faster than light? a lot of things go faster than light! bad luck is one and keep going

I agree, the only thing that can go faster contrary to light is bad luck and bad news.At least with light you can guess when ,where ,how deep it was in the universe. But let me pour myself an un-blended Scotch whisky,. ...Haaa i am starting to surf the wave now! I get your drift ! We all stand to gain from this worthy debate. But on the practical human side that will still not prevent us from being late. In fact the only looser is: shadow.Did I get it? hoops!

I hope though if I am to travel get more than 60 miles per gallon,because the payload of booze will be substantially less.

am I off topic or TUI toughs under the influence)