Question about the speed of light...

[Goosemaster]

Is there any significance in that the speed of light is approximately 300k meters/sec?

 

[Mo0o]

Other than that when we reach that speed we become pure energy? (or so says einstein)

 

[Goosemaster]

Originally posted by: Mo0o
Other than that when we reach that speed we become pure energy? (or so says einstein)

no..i meant is there anythign significant about the number 300000 relating to the speed of light...

 

[edro]

Meter and second are arbitrary creations of man... so no.

Also, it's not 300, it's 299.5.

Edit: Google says: 299 792 458

 

[JoeKing]

Originally posted by: Mo0o
Other than that when we reach that speed we become pure energy? (or so says einstein)

wrong you re re! More like we gain infinite mass like your last date

 

[mobobuff]

Originally posted by: edro13
Meter and second are arbitrary creations of man... so no.

 

[neutralizer]

Why say 300k m/s, isnt it easier to say 3e8 m/s

 

[Mo0o]

Originally posted by: JoeKing

Originally posted by: Mo0o
Other than that when we reach that speed we become pure energy? (or so says einstein)

wrong you re re! More like we gain infinite mass like your last date

She may have had infinite mass, but she also had infinite energy wink wink wink

Besides, that's no way to talk about your mother

 

[agnitrate]

No. Translate it to other units and try and find significance in those numbers if you want.

 

[yoda291]

Originally posted by: Mo0o

Originally posted by: JoeKing

Originally posted by: Mo0o
Other than that when we reach that speed we become pure energy? (or so says einstein)

wrong you re re! More like we gain infinite mass like your last date

She may have had infinite mass, but she also had infinite energy wink wink wink

Besides, that's no way to talk about your mother

you couldn't run away huh?

 

[Cattlegod]

Originally posted by: Goosemaster

Originally posted by: Mo0o
Other than that when we reach that speed we become pure energy? (or so says einstein)

no..i meant is there anythign significant about the number 300000 relating to the speed of light...

None at all. length was created by man. if we doubled all length definitions, then the speed of light would be 150000 and not 300000m/s. It doesn't mean anything

 

[jEct2]

This puts things into context:

In one second, light can spin aorund the earth seven times and a half.

 

[Ferocious]

I think the known universe is about 300,000 light-years across.

So as the universe gets bigger...the speed of light must get faster.

 

[Cattlegod]

Originally posted by: Ferocious
I think the known universe is about 300,000 light-years across.

So as the universe gets bigger...the speed of light must get faster.

I think it is a lot larger than that

 

[jEct2]

Originally posted by: Goosemaster
Is there any significance in that the speed of light is approximately 300k meters/sec?

i kept thinking, it can't be that slow. it's 300 mega meters (300,000 kilometer)

 

[Ferocious]

Originally posted by: Cattlegod

Originally posted by: Ferocious
I think the known universe is about 300,000 light-years across.

So as the universe gets bigger...the speed of light must get faster.

I think it is a lot larger than that

maybe the galaxy or solar system.....I know it was something.

 

[Mojoed]

Originally posted by: Cattlegod

Originally posted by: Ferocious
I think the known universe is about 300,000 light-years across.

So as the universe gets bigger...the speed of light must get faster.

I think it is a lot larger than that

Yea, latest estimates are around 14-15 billion light-years.

 

[JoeKing]

Originally posted by: Mo0o

Originally posted by: JoeKing

Originally posted by: Mo0o
Other than that when we reach that speed we become pure energy? (or so says einstein)

wrong you re re! More like we gain infinite mass like your last date

She may have had infinite mass, but she also had infinite energy wink wink wink

Besides, that's no way to talk about your mother

no! The fat bitch would have infinte energy applied to her to get her fat ass moving that fast.


And damnit I left myself wide open to that momma retort.... wide open like your mom!!

 

[Goosemaster]

Originally posted by: jEct2

Originally posted by: Goosemaster
Is there any significance in that the speed of light is approximately 300k meters/sec?

i kept thinking, it can't be that slow. it's 300 mega meters (300,000 kilometer)

whoops..that is all i wanted to know

 

[DAGTA]

Originally posted by: Ferocious
I think the known universe is about 300,000 light-years across.

So as the universe gets bigger...the speed of light must get faster.

You're off by orders of magnitude. Our own galaxy, the Milky Way, is approximately 70,000 light years in diameter. Last estimate I heard was that there were over 600,000,000 galaxies.

 

[dighn]

the arbitrariness of units & number systems aside, it's not even exatly 300k km

 

[Mojoed]

Originally posted by: dighn
the arbitrariness of units & number systems aside, it's not even exatly 300k km

Pretty close, though.

299,792.458 kilometers per second

 

[kcthomas]

it comes from this:

permittivity of free space ( e0 )
8.85 x 10-12 farad per meter
constant of proportionality that exists between electric displacement and electric field intensity in a given medium

permeability of free space ( u0 )
1.257 x 10-6 henry per meter
constant of proportionality that exists between magnetic flux density and magnetic field strength in a given medium

c = 1 / sqrt ( e0 * u0 )

 

[Pepsi90919]

blackinches

 

[Nitemare]

Originally posted by: agnitrate
No. Translate it to other units and try and find significance in those numbers if you want.

The answer is 42 jiggawatts