Unanswerable Questions!!

[Dorienne]

Originally Posted by Adam Y.

Believe it or not there is an anwser to that. The most credible pshyics say that they can never use their power for their personal gain. They can only use it to help others. Also, most psyhics don't predict the future. They usually have the ability to communicate with the dead

Wow, thanks for informing me! That's pretty interesting.
--d0ri

[RudimentaryPeni]

1. If 7-11 is open 24-hours a day, 365 days a year, why are there locks on the doors?

2. If nothing ever sticks to TEFLON, how do they make TEFLON stick to the pan?

3. If you're in a vehicle going the speed of light, what happens when you turn on the headlights?

[Yan Wang]

Originally Posted by RudimentaryPeni

1. If 7-11 is open 24-hours a day, 365 days a year, why are there locks on the doors?

2. If nothing ever sticks to TEFLON, how do they make TEFLON stick to the pan?

3. If you're in a vehicle going the speed of light, what happens when you turn on the headlights?

2 can be answered - google for it (I was curious about it too). I think 3 can too - forget what my textbook says.

hmm...

What is answer to this question?

[JVN]

Originally Posted by RudimentaryPeni

3. If you're in a vehicle going the speed of light, what happens when you turn on the headlights?

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

[EddieMcD]

Originally Posted by RudimentaryPeni

3. If you're in a vehicle going the speed of light, what happens when you turn on the headlights?

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.

[DanL]

Originally Posted by RudimentaryPeni

1. If 7-11 is open 24-hours a day, 365 days a year, why are there locks on the doors?

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.

Originally Posted by RudimentaryPeni

3. If you're in a vehicle going the speed of light, what happens when you turn on the headlights?

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.

[Zanella BR]

Originally Posted by SuperDanman

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.

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!

[EddieMcD]

Originally Posted by Zanella BR

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

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

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.

[Elgin Clock]

Originally Posted by EddieMcD

This is turning into an interesting physics discussion.

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.... )

[Astronouth7303]

Originally Posted by Elgin Clock

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

That is always the thing.

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

[Zanella BR]

Originally Posted by EddieMcD

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.

The wormholes are "holes" (duh!) connecting different places/times at the space-time, the physics isn't less efective: it's like a teletransport or time-travel...
Everyone should watch "Timeline"!!!

I think "Why does it never work even when eveyone has said it should work?" is THE question...

[Aignam]

How many JVN's does it take to screw in a lightbulb?

(certainly not unanswerable, but it shall yield some interesting responses...)

[Joe Matt]

Originally Posted by Aignam

How many JVN's does it take to screw in a lightbulb?

(certainly not unanswerable, but it shall yield some interesting responses...)

6,972

1 to put it in
6,971 to say they are John-V-Neun.

[RudimentaryPeni]

I have an unanswerable question.

Where are the weapons of mass destruction?

[Jake177]

Originally posted by EddieMcD
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.

Don't forget the infinite probability drive from The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy that travels through every point in time and space at the same time.

Here's a favorite question of mine: Would a fly without wings be called a walk?