Originally Posted by SUBMAN1

Yes, that is why a micro black hole will solve your problem - It removes the energy from the equation. It is the energy.

-S

Originally Posted by Zayphod

That sounds very zen-like, doesn't it?

"Be the energy." :)

Originally Posted by Platapus

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Our experiments can demonstrate that whatever the speed of light is, it is a constant in a specified environment. This was documented in the Einstein one-way two-way postulate.

So before we get all excited about speeds faster than light, we might want to work on the technology that will allows us to actually measure the speed of a photon.

So the speed of light is pretty close to 299,792,458 metres per second in a free and perfect vacuum, but how close we still don't really know.

The good news is that for all practical purposes the 299... Million metres per second is good enough....for now.

The bad news is that if we start formulating more and more theories that rely on the speed of light being 299...Million metres per second, they may, just may, be a little off.

Aint that a kick in the head?

Originally Posted by Mass Effect wiki

Light travels slower through glass then it does through open air; light also moves slower in conventional space then it does in a high-speed mass effect field. This causes refraction - any light entering at an angle is bent and separated into a spectrum. Objects outside the ship will appear refracted. The greater the difference between the objective (exterior) and subjective (interior) speeds of light, the greater the refraction.

As the subjective speed of lights is raised within the field, objects outside will appear to red-shift, eventually becoming visible only to radio telescope antennae. High-energy electromagnetic sources normally hidden to the eye become visible on the spectrum. As the speed of light continues to be raised, x-ray, gamma ray, and eventfully cosmic ray sources become visible. Stars will be replaced by pulsars, the accretion discs of black holes, quasars, and gamma ray bursts.

To an outside observer, a ship within a mass effect drive envelope appears to blue-shifted. If within a field that allows travel at twice the speed of light, any radiation it emits has twice the energy as normal. If the ship is in a field of about 200 times light speed, it radiates visible light as x-ray and gamma rays, and the infrared heat from the hull is blue-shifted up into the visible spectrum or higher.

Ships moving at FTL are visible at great distances, though their signature will only propagate at the speed of light. According to Engineer Adams, the Normandy's stealth system does not work at FTL speeds because that blue-shifts the ship's emissions into frequencies too high to capture in the hull sinks.

Originally Posted by Blacklight

The wierd thing about the speed of light is that it's always the same speed nomatter how fast you're going and how you measure it.
Consider this... if you're in a space ship.... and you're racing a photon of light.... it's not like you're racing a car where as you speed up.. the car you're chasing seems to slow down as your speed increases. In the case of the photon... it will seem to increase speed WITH you in the exact same ammount that you accelerated. Now if you come to a standstill suddenly... the photon will also fly past you still seeming the exact same speed that it was when you were racing it.

Originally Posted by UnderseaLcpl

No matter how much it blows my mind I still love this stuff.:up:

I've been told before that time and speed are two sides of the same coin, i.e. If you're moving at the speed of light you do not experience the passage of time at all, whereas if you were completely stopped relative to the universe (how would you do that?) everything ever would seem to happen instantaneously.

I'm sure I got some of that wrong, but if anyone knows anything about it I'd appreciate the input.
Also, what is the ratio of speed to time distortion? Is it directly proportional as you approach the speed of light, or is it more of a j-curve?

Originally Posted by NealT

Well that one is easy. Just look at

Star Trek - when you break into Warp you get a big flash of light.
Babylon 5 - when you break into hyperspace you get a dark hole surrounded by light and a lot of pretty lights on the other side.
Star Wars - when you break lightspeed you get a lot of swirlie lights.

Problem solved.

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