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Gravitational Waves Proven to Exist

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I am not a science fanatic but apparently a group of smart people just confirmed the existence of gravitational waves - the last part of Einstein's theory of relativity to be proven.

 

I didn't really understand how important it is at first, but basically it opens the door to crazy things like "warp speed" because space and time is now proven to "bend" rather than it being simply a theory. I am sure there are way more higher-level impacts that are beyond my abilities to grasp, but it is pretty neat.

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i think scientists just proved some his theory not that long ago through experiments with quantum entanglement.  stuff is pretty crazy to grasp if you can follow it the least bit or get a layman's explanation for each of it.  physics meant work when I got my degree.  after the fact it's pretty awesome when ties are made to aspects of real world outside the class room.  only driving force to make me study.  hated school.  more you learned the less you realized you knew.  individuals like Einstein are irreplaceable.

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Time travel is a small branch of the relativity theory also.  According to Einstein, once you exceed the speed of light, times slows down and thus, if fast enough, time eventually stops.

 

Correction.  Einstein thought you couldn't eve move faster than the speed of light, but approaching speeds near the speed of light caused your relative acceptance of time to slow down.  So if you and a friend started stop watches at the same time... the first guy ran max human speed (18mph) and the other guy ran .99 the speed of light... when each of them stopped to have lunch together later the guy running faster would have aged less and his stop watch would be behind his friend.

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Correction.  Einstein thought you couldn't eve move faster than the speed of light, but approaching speeds near the speed of light caused your relative acceptance of time to slow down.  So if you and a friend started stop watches at the same time... the first guy ran max human speed (18mph) and the other guy ran .99 the speed of light... when each of them stopped to have lunch together later the guy running faster would have aged less and his stop watch would be behind his friend.

 

Thanks for elaborating.

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Due to how fast it is, if you find something faster it would be surprising to say the least.  Impossible barrier at this stage.  As much as we would like to do warp speeds and explore the universe it is almost impossible with the tech we have today.  Bending or using worm holes is the only solution for long distance travel.  Problem is when you got back from your trip everyone you know would be dead as time would slow for you and keep going normally for everyone else on the planet. 

 

Many things we are starting to understand, I just hope we do not all disappear due to some weird experiment gone awry to prove some theory like creating a black hole.  Considering most planets we would explore are more than a light year away I would be temped to say we will never get to explore them, ever.  But if we did it would probably be a one way trip.

I wonder why we think of light as a limit, instead of a barrier, or a step.

 

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Due to how fast it is, if you find something faster it would be surprising to say the least.  Impossible barrier at this stage.  As much as we would like to do warp speeds and explore the universe it is almost impossible with the tech we have today.  Bending or using worm holes is the only solution for long distance travel.  Problem is when you got back from your trip everyone you know would be dead as time would slow for you and keep going normally for everyone else on the planet. 

 

Many things we are starting to understand, I just hope we do not all disappear due to some weird experiment gone awry to prove some theory like creating a black hole.  Considering most planets we would explore are more than a light year away I would be temped to say we will never get to explore them, ever.  But if we did it would probably be a one way trip.

 

Yes, it would be surprising.  Some might even say unthinkable.

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