light speed missile

[QUOTE="Sword-Demon"]

[QUOTE="King-Kai"]

Explain in detail.

themajormayor

in short:

-Time dilation

-Spacial shrinking

-Infinite energy requirement

-Infinite mass

The ships themselves aren't moving at light speed. They're using warp drive:

"In 1994 Alcubierre proposed a way of changing the geometry of space by creating a wave which would cause the fabric of space ahead of a spacecraft to contract and the space behind it to expand.The ship would then ride this wave inside a region of flat space known as a warp bubble, and would not move within this bubble, but instead be carried along as the region itself moves as a consequence of the actions of the drive."

[QUOTE="markop2003"]Simply getting to light speed would melt the universe as it would require an infinite amount of energy.magicalclick

You cannot melt an infinite universe using infinite amount of energy.

[QUOTE="Sword-Demon"][QUOTE="magicalclick"]

You cannot melt an infinite universe using infinite amount of energy.

magicalclick

Well, infinite universe is the "current" belief. Note "current", which is subject to change. Well, many things are subject to change as well, not just the concept of infinite universe.

[QUOTE="worlock77"]

Light speed's too slow. The real question is what would happen if the ship were travelling at ludicrous speed?

wis3boi

I've never had physics and don't know much about it, but this is faster than the speed of light... OPERA

Xeogua

[QUOTE="markop2003"]Simply getting to light speed would melt the universe as it would require an infinite amount of energy.magicalclick

You cannot melt an infinite universe using infinite amount of energy.

[QUOTE="Sword-Demon"][QUOTE="magicalclick"]

You cannot melt an infinite universe using infinite amount of energy.

magicalclick

Well, infinite universe is the "current" belief. Note "current", which is subject to change. Well, many things are subject to change as well, not just the concept of infinite universe.

Also asridiculous as it sound, you should be able to generate negative energy to create positive energy. That's not possible to today's science beliefs. But, I believe one day, a mad scientist would be able to do that, just not in my life time.

Negative energy to create positive energy? lolol Positive energy is all around us, aka mass (E=Mc^2)
We don't have the technology to create enough negative energy to be able to do anything with it

Well, infinite universe is the "current" belief. Note "current", which is subject to change. Well, many things are subject to change as well, not just the concept of infinite universe.

Also asridiculous as it sound, you should be able to generate negative energy to create positive energy. That's not possible to today's science beliefs. But, I believe one day, a mad scientist would be able to do that, just not in my life time.

magicalclick

The limitation of the impossible disappears with time. One day we will have light speed travel, to say otherwise just limits what we can do. I can't wait for ludicrous speed. Oh boy!

[QUOTE="magicalclick"]

Well, infinite universe is the "current" belief. Note "current", which is subject to change. Well, many things are subject to change as well, not just the concept of infinite universe.

Also asridiculous as it sound, you should be able to generate negative energy to create positive energy. That's not possible to today's science beliefs. But, I believe one day, a mad scientist would be able to do that, just not in my life time.

Inconsistancy

A 13,600 kg X-wing traveling at 299,792,458 meters per second would have a kinetic energy of 6.11 X 10^20 joules. A one megaton explosion is equal to 4.18 x 10^15 joules. So yeah, that's 146,000 megatons. Kind'a on the big size as far as explosions go :P

light speed travel is impossible, so nothing would happen :|

Sword-Demon

In the laws of physics as we know, you are right. But who are you to say that it is impossible, we know very little of the universe.

[QUOTE="wis3boi"][QUOTE="worlock77"]

Light speed's too slow. The real question is what would happen if the ship were travelling at ludicrous speed?

Matthew-first

you win the internet

light speed travel is impossible, so nothing would happen :|

Sword-Demon

On the bright side that means time travel is possible :D

If a ship goes at light speed you have more important problems to think of than it crashing into a planet, lol.

[QUOTE="Sword-Demon"]

light speed travel is impossible, so nothing would happen :|

Ross_the_Boss6

On the bright side that means time travel is possible :D

[QUOTE="Ross_the_Boss6"]

[QUOTE="Sword-Demon"]

light speed travel is impossible, so nothing would happen :|

FMAB_GTO

On the bright side that means time travel is possible :D

Well, yeah. :( I doubt humans will ever come close to the speed of light for more than one reason. But we have done it with atoms, which is pretty cool.

[QUOTE="FMAB_GTO"][QUOTE="Ross_the_Boss6"]

On the bright side that means time travel is possible :D

Ross_the_Boss6

Well, yeah. :( I doubt humans will ever come close to the speed of light for more than one reason. But we have done it with atoms, which is pretty cool.

anything is possibleMrMe1000

[QUOTE="Sword-Demon"][QUOTE="theSteeeeels"]oh yeah i guess youre right one question though why does faster mean more mass?MrMe1000

[QUOTE="MrMe1000"][QUOTE="Sword-Demon"] momentum is how mass is stored in an object. That's why the faster something is going, the more force it producesSword-Demon

[QUOTE="Sword-Demon"]

[QUOTE="MrMe1000"] stop talking out of your ass anything is possibleMrMe1000

[QUOTE="MrMe1000"][QUOTE="Sword-Demon"] no need to be rude

chaoscougar1

the laws of physics is gravity's B!TCH

[QUOTE="chaoscougar1"][QUOTE="MrMe1000"] its neededMrMe1000

the laws of physics is gravity's B!TCH

The fact that the missile is travelling at light speed means that the entire universe gets annihilated.

[QUOTE="Sword-Demon"][QUOTE="theSteeeeels"]oh yeah i guess youre right one question though why does faster mean more mass?MrMe1000

Sorry, but no, anything is not possible.

[QUOTE="MrMe1000"][QUOTE="Sword-Demon"] momentum is how mass is stored in an object. That's why the faster something is going, the more force it producesworlock77

Sorry, but no, anything is not possible.

In the correct enviroment, yes, anything is possible.

[QUOTE="worlock77"]

[QUOTE="MrMe1000"] stop talking out of your ass anything is possibleNibroc420

Sorry, but no, anything is not possible.

In the correct enviroment, yes, anything is possible.

So what environment is needed in order for me to knock a hole in a mountain by hitting it with my bare head?

[QUOTE="Nibroc420"]

[QUOTE="worlock77"]

Sorry, but no, anything is not possible.

worlock77

In the correct enviroment, yes, anything is possible.

So what environment is needed in order for me to knock a hole in a mountain by hitting it with my bare head?

[QUOTE="worlock77"]

[QUOTE="Nibroc420"]

In the correct enviroment, yes, anything is possible.

Nibroc420

So what environment is needed in order for me to knock a hole in a mountain by hitting it with my bare head?

Motherf*cking lol.