Think about this

[JohnCU]

If you were able to travel many magnitudes faster than light, you could shoot off far away, and with a humongonous telescope, look back at the Earth when dinosaurs roamed the earth.

 

[scarpent]

You can't travel faster than light.

 

[JohnCU]

This is theoretical thinking. You can't travel at the speed of light, but faster than light? Hmmm... you get a complex number in the square root of the equations but...

 

[scarpent]

I like reality. Unless its in a movie.

 

[Zim Hosein]

The speed of light in a vacuum is 299,792,458 m/s

Since astronomers can see 18,000,000,000 light years away, they are already looking back in time! :Q

 

[Mallow]

you would have to be so far away there wouldn't be a telescope that would have the resolution to pick up a dino.

 

[illusion88]

Better luck finding a wormhole and traveling back in time through that.

 

[JohnCU]

you people have no imagination, except for Zim.

 

[illusion88]

Originally posted by: JohnCU
you people have no imagination, except for Zim.

Wormholes exist. In fact they happen all the time! The appear and disapear so fast that nothing can travel through them. Einstein's field equation predicts that wormholes live short lvies if left to their own devices; their lives are made shorter by random infalling bits of radiation. The radiation, according to Doug Eardly and Ian Redmount if my memory servers me correctly, gets accelerated to ultra-high energy by the wormholes gravity, and as the energized radiation bombards the wormholes throat, it triggers the throat to recontract and pinch off faster then it would normally. In essence, there could either be billions of wormholes going off at any given time, or none. We can never tell because they happen so quickly! The only time we might detect one is if one was observing some radiation and noticed that some disappeared. Even then, the ammount that would be missing would be so small one would probably account that to a calculation error or device failure.

 

[bigrash]

put the beer down

 

[laurenlex]

You need to find some better weed before attempting to blow my mind. Try again.

 

[BrokenVisage]

my head esplodes.

 

[villageidiot111]

Pff, you don't need to travel faster than light, only faster than 88 miles per hour.

 

[Zim Hosein]

Originally posted by: villageidiot111
Pff, you don't need to travel faster than light, only faster than 88 miles per hour.

 

[ShadowBlade]

Originally posted by: villageidiot111
Pff, you don't need to travel faster than light, only faster than 88 miles per hour.

but you gotta have your flux capacitor first
and also plutonium/lightning/mr. fusion/cant remember what he does for the train

 

[laurenlex]

Originally posted by: Zim Hosein

Originally posted by: villageidiot111
Pff, you don't need to travel faster than light, only faster than 88 miles per hour.

Don't be confused, Zim. Rent Back To The Future.

 

[sswingle]

Originally posted by: laurenlex

Originally posted by: Zim Hosein

Originally posted by: villageidiot111
Pff, you don't need to travel faster than light, only faster than 88 miles per hour.

Don't be confused, Zim. Rent Back To The Future.

I thought everyone had seen that movie by now.

 

[Zim Hosein]

Originally posted by: laurenlex

Originally posted by: Zim Hosein

Originally posted by: villageidiot111
Pff, you don't need to travel faster than light, only faster than 88 miles per hour.

Don't be confused, Zim. Rent Back To The Future.

I saw that movie in '85, you want me to remember that!

 

[illusion88]

Originally posted by: Zim Hosein

Originally posted by: laurenlex

Originally posted by: Zim Hosein

Originally posted by: villageidiot111
Pff, you don't need to travel faster than light, only faster than 88 miles per hour.

Don't be confused, Zim. Rent Back To The Future.

I saw that movie in '85, you want me to remember that!

But thats... thats the part that makes the whole series! The Delorean going 88mph! Thats the scene that most people identify the movie with.

 

[JMWarren]

Don't forget you need 1.21 JIGA watts of power.....shudder

Mike

 

[reverend boltron]

Originally posted by: illusion88

Originally posted by: JohnCU
you people have no imagination, except for Zim.

Wormholes exist. In fact they happen all the time! The appear and disapear so fast that nothing can travel through them. Einstein's field equation predicts that wormholes live short lvies if left to their own devices; their lives are made shorter by random infalling bits of radiation. The radiation, according to Doug Eardly and Ian Redmount if my memory servers me correctly, gets accelerated to ultra-high energy by the wormholes gravity, and as the energized radiation bombards the wormholes throat, it triggers the throat to recontract and pinch off faster then it would normally. In essence, there could either be billions of wormholes going off at any given time, or none. We can never tell because they happen so quickly! The only time we might detect one is if one was observing some radiation and noticed that some disappeared. Even then, the ammount that would be missing would be so small one would probably account that to a calculation error or device failure.

You spelled "amount" wrong, stewpid. jk

 

[eakers]

Isn't that how similar to how superman went back in time? flew around the world backwards faster than the speed of light? :Q

 

[illusion88]

Originally posted by: eakers
Isn't that how similar to how superman went back in time? flew around the world backwards faster than the speed of light? :Q

It's been a while, but didn't he spin the earth in the opposite direction by flying around it real fast?

 

[ThePresence]

If you really blow your mind you can see when dinosaurs roamed the earth too.

 

[everman]

The same thing applies to any star or planet you were to look at right now. IE: look at something 1 million light years away, and you're seeing what it looked like 1 million years ago.