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no, if you have the door open just a crack u can see the light go off before the door is fully closed.

sorry, thats the last time i'll shoot down somebody's question :o

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Oooooo, relativistic physics! Fun stuff!

I seem to remember this one as:
If you do that, you'll shread the fabric of the universe, because it's not possible ;). No object can go the speed of light, and relativity doesn't apply to speeds approaching c. It's been a few years, and theoretical physics was never my particular cup of tea (it doesn't involve gears... ;)), so correct me if I'm wrong.

Energy is matter, matter is energy. Everything can be expressed as an eV. Wow... that was a fun class. Good times.

John

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It's a pretty hefty price I pay to have hair this nice.

And Trav, those are screams of joy. The animals shriek, "oh fair karthik, please further indulge us with the beauty that is your voice..."

To stay on topic, here's a favourite of mine:

"A man of Toronto is shaved by the Barber of Toronto if and only if the man does not shave himself. Does the barber shave himself?"

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The speed of light is constant (although there are some very recent studies saying it isn't, but for this case, we'll apply the common theory). And since time inside the vehicle has actually stopped (although from their point of view, they're moving happily through space), it will appear as though the light is still moving at the speed of light (and it actually is). In fact, from our point of view, the light from the vehicle and the light from the headlights will reach us at the same time, no matter which direction they're facing.

Or, I could just plug the Theory of Relativity in there and say it's impossible to go the speed of light because the energy required to move an object the speed of light would become infinite, but that'd be no fun. :p

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He could if he wanted to. The "man of Toronto" is from Toronto, OH USA and the barber is from Toronto, ON Canada. The conditional shaving rule which applies to the American Toronto does not apply to the Canadian city; therefore, the Barber of Toronto, Ontario is free to do as he wishes. Perhaps he should do us all a favor and shave your head? :cool:

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Whoa... whoa whoa.....

That sounds like a fun idea...
File "shave Karthik's head" under -- "Good ideas for 2005 Bets".
I'm sure no one has heard the last of this.

Good one Trav.

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More unanswered questions:

Why is the pound sign called the pound sign?

Why is Jesus the only biblical character who has a last name?

Why is it that when you blow at a dog's nose they run away but when you take them for a ride in the car the first thing they do is stick their heads out the window and into the wind?

In Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory, didn't you find it disturbing that the Oompa Loompa's didn't wear hair-nets?
(That one came from a cool movie that had a lot of unanswered questions.. But it's rated R, so I'm not going to mention it publicly.. You want to know the movie's name, PM me.)

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if a turtle loses its shell, is it homeless or just naked?

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These are some of my favorite logic puzzles. The answer to this most simplest of them all is that the person is lying.

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I was once curious about this, so I went to the local 7-11... turns out there actually weren't any locks on the door.

I remember we talked about this in physics once... I forget the equation, but to be traveling at the speed of light would somehow produce a divide-by-zero error (back to the take-an-infinite-amount-of-energy thing brought up before), so its assumed you can travel only below or above the speed of light, but not at.

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Well, assuming you could go the speed of light, I think it'd be kind of like a sonic boom but with light. Also, your headlights would be useless; they'd be another set of tail lights!

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v = (v1+v2)/(1+((v1v2)/c^2))

Special Theory of Relativity!

If v1 = v2 = c (you travelling at the speed of light AND the light), you have a a division by zero, so it's impossible to travel at the speed of light.

Remember: m = m0/(1 - (v^2/c^2))^1/2 (where m0 is the inertial mass)
You'll need a bigger, and bigger, and bigger (...) Energy...


I'd like to know how those guys do that in the movies! :ahh:

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Duh! They go faster than light by not actually going faster than light (yay, paradoxes!). :p

Okay, to be serious, a lot are explained as either cutting a hole in space (ala the Einsten-Rosen Bridge, or wormhole), or travelling through time as well as space (when you relize that time slows the closer to C you get). Then there's the occasional "hyper"-space (the ship moves to a different plane, where physics become less effective), folding space (the tesseract, making one place directly next to the other), or warping space (by making the space in front of you smaller so while going the same speed, the distance traveled is less). That's all I can think of off the top of my head.

This is turning into an interesting physics discussion. :)

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The words Interesting and Physics do not belong in the same sentence, unless there is the word NOT before the word Interesting.....


Elgin
(Bitter about physics classes in general - but knows how things should work....:( )

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That is always the thing.

Why does it never work even when eveyone has said it should work?