50 Billion Planets!

[Sailor Steve]

Originally Posted by Castout

Umm I got that idea from the beginning but how I just couldn't understand it logically speaking. I can grab the idea but not understand why it is so.

Actually it works both ways. The faster you go the longer it takes the light from your starting point to reach you, hence the slower things there would appear to move (assuming you could see them). Unfortunately relativity works both ways, so the light from your spaceship would have the same problem, so the reality is that time would seem to slow down on earth if you could see it.

Or at least that's the way it would work for two spaceships, since neither one is travelling at all except when compared to the other.

Buuuut...

Gravity seems to throw that all out of whack, so to a person in a gravity well (such as a planet like earth) the spaceship, which has no gravity of its own (none to speak of anyway) really would appear to be passing time more slowly. Here's a simple explanation:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_dilation

And this one's a little easier to understand:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twin_paradox

[Schöneboom]

Looks to me like we either get one of these or we ain't going very far:

[krashkart]

So many new places to go and no way to travel to them.

[Armistead]

Space is amazing, even if you don't believe in God, space itself proves time and space itself are eternal. To think no matter how far you look backward or forward, it's non ending.

We don't have the technology or sources to travel space to use any planets. Unless life comes from another planet, we'll be here using earth up.

Course the year 2012 is coming soon and it will all be over. I just hope it's not another ice age, I hate the cold.

[TLAM Strike]

Originally Posted by Armistead

Space is amazing, even if you don't believe in God, space itself proves time and space itself are eternal. To think no matter how far you look backward or forward, it's non ending.

Well according to most accepted theories if you look far enough back you will eventually see nothing because you will be seeing the universe before the big bang in which time at matter didn't exist. As for the end it depends on what theory you subscribe to, but most either way end with all matter in the universe coming to and end, with out any matter measurement of time becomes nearly impossible.

We don't have the technology or sources to travel space to use any planets. Unless life comes from another planet, we'll be here using earth up.

Sometimes I feel like I'm talking to my self. Everyone seems to underestimate humans, and what they are capable of. When I build my Orion for my Rigel Kent flight none of you can come along...

...except maybe Oberon, ML, Luftwolf and Vendor.

[Armistead]

Originally Posted by TLAM Strike

Well according to most accepted theories if you look far enough back you will eventually see nothing because you will be seeing the universe before the big bang in which time at matter didn't exist. As for the end it depends on what theory you subscribe to, but most either way end with all matter in the universe coming to and end, with out any matter measurement of time becomes nearly impossible.

Sometimes I feel like I'm talking to my self. Everyone seems to underestimate humans, and what they are capable of. When I build my Orion for my Rigel Kent flight none of you can come along...

...except maybe Oberon, ML, Luftwolf and Vendor.

Nothing...is still something, emptiness is still space. The big bang may have happened out of thin air....but thin air is something. Time and space is non-ending.

I don't underestimate humans, I expect them to do what they've always done, take over and destroy civilizations and then rebuild again, it's just now the damage we can do can set us back to the dark ages.

Humans...humbug..

[Tchocky]

Our galaxy itself contains a hundred billion stars, it's a hundred thousand light years side to siiiiiiide