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Faster than light centrifuge

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Originally posted by: pinion9
Originally posted by: dugweb
... this thread is now about steak
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Ever been to a Brazillian steakhouse? Where the Gaucho's come out and carve succulent meat onto your plate? Texas De Brazil is AWESOME....the garlic encrusted filet, just a little pink, was excellent.
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I've been to a Brazillian steak house, and it was the first thing that I thought of when I saw this thread about steak!! It was in Woodland Hills, CA and I think it was called Gauchos or something like that.

We ordered this fried cheese appetizer thing. It was like a thick slab of some white cheese in a small cast-iron skillet sprinkled with some herb and cooked until it had a crust. Man, that was good.
 
It is impossable to ever get enough energy to spin the blade faster than the speed of light. If you care to know why...take a modern physics course.
 
ok ok now for the big question! if these were put on an airplane and the airplane was on a conveyor belt would the plane take off?
 
Originally posted by: TheoPetro
It is impossable to ever get enough energy to spin the blade faster than the speed of light. If you care to know why...take a modern physics course.
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why would someone ever want to spin a blade to cut steak, i dont know!
 
Originally posted by: waggy
ok ok now for the big question! if these were put on an airplane and the airplane was on a conveyor belt would the plane take off?
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not if they had snakes on them
 
Originally posted by: waggy
ok ok now for the big question! if these were put on an airplane and the airplane was on a conveyor belt would the plane take off?
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Stupid question! Assuming we could get it spinning at the speed of light, how would you ever get a 10^9 meter prop on an airplane? Use common sense here.

And what the hell does that have to do with steak? I advise you to edit your post before lock/ban.

🙂
 
Originally posted by: pinion9
Originally posted by: waggy
ok ok now for the big question! if these were put on an airplane and the airplane was on a conveyor belt would the plane take off?
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Stupid question! Assuming we could get it spinning at the speed of light, how would you ever get a 10^9 meter prop on an airplane? Use common sense here.

And what the hell does that have to do with steak? I advise you to edit your post before lock/ban.

🙂
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i took it as he were talking about the steaks being put on a plane



STEAKS ON A MFKING PLANE!
 
Are we talking steak & potatoes, or just a huge slab of beef steak?

Wait, does that mean that if you had the steak at the end of the arms on the rotating thingy, you would have steak that approached infinite mass? *EG*
 
Originally posted by: swtethan
Originally posted by: TheoPetro
It is impossable to ever get enough energy to spin the blade faster than the speed of light. If you care to know why...take a modern physics course.
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why would someone ever want to spin a blade to cut steak, i dont know!
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Hmmm...I bet the friction from the spinning blade would sear the steak, sealing in flavor! It is a good idea, and it just might work....
 
Originally posted by: Fullmetal Chocobo
Are we talking steak & potatoes, or just a huge slab of beef steak?

Wait, does that mean that if you had the steak at the end of the arms on the rotating thingy, you would have steak that approached infinite mass? *EG*
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We may talk about steak and the fixings, including side dishes, but the side dishes may only account for 20% of the post.

Steak with infinite mass would solve a lot of problems, namely, world hunger. However, it would be somewhat difficult to cut at such a speed.
 
Originally posted by: pinion9
Steak with infinite mass would solve a lot of problems, namely, world hunger. However, it would be somewhat difficult to cut at such a speed.
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Well we could get people to sit on another pendulum or 10^9 metres, spinning at the speed of light + 2, so they could slowly but surely cut through the infinte steak.
 
Originally posted by: Mark R
So, lets assume that you have a rotor - perhaps, rather like on one a wind turbine.

The diameter of this rotor is extremely large (e.g. 10 ^ 9 metres). You gruadually begin to spin the rotor.

Now, at some point, the velocity at the tips of the blades are going to approach light speed.

So, if the rotor is large enough, and the material strong enough to provide the centripetal force, and there are no external forces what would happen as the rotor gradually increased in speed?
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I don't see how this would differ from any other case of accelerating to the speed of light. The faster the blades rotate, the harder it becomes to continue accelerating them. You will reach a point where you do not have enough energy to continue accelerating them ever closer to the speed of light.
 
Originally posted by: NanoStuff

I don't see how this would differ from any other case of accelerating to the speed of light. The faster the blades rotate, the harder it becomes to continue accelerating them. You will reach a point where you do not have enough energy to continue accelerating them ever closer to the speed of light.
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The mass increase I can understand. But how do you reconcile time dilation and foreshortening?
 
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