Internet Awesomeness

[Philote]

I never understood why people considered the speed of light to be the maximum speed of anything.

[Celadon's Penultimate]

Tachyons supposedly move much faster than that...

[Philote]

A what?

[Celadon's Penultimate]

A tachyon. From the Greek "Tachy-" or "tachu" meaning swift and "on" meaning particle. It's a proposed metaphysical particle capable of moving faster than light. They have yet to document the tachyon's existence...

[Philote]

 So if im understanding this right they just made something up and gave it a new word

[Celadon's Penultimate]

It's a FAIRLY recent idea, but it's not THAT new. I'd say a few years. Enough time for nerds to make superheroes capable of manipulating them, or harnessing them for superspeed...

Google it. Tachyons.

[Philote]

I'll try to check it out later

[Celadon's Penultimate]

Makes for good superpowers.

[Celadon's Penultimate]

THIS SHOW IS FUNNY AS CRAP!!!

[Vespert]

That's because some guys postulated that when objects with mass move at a speed approaching the speed of light, their mass increases to infinity and they therefore need an infinite amount of energy to be moved. They even created and modified mathematical formulas to fit their proposition.

[Celadon's Penultimate]

I've never understood the logic behind that school of thought. Just because it gets faster, it gets bigger?

In that case, the Flash should be the size of Jupiter twenty times over...

[Vespert]

Not bigger, just more massive. In fact, their length also contracts in the direction of the movement.
All that's only true when one reaches speeds very close to the speed of light. Their relationship with the speed of light is not proportional.

[Celadon's Penultimate]

I suppose. That would mean that a single light ray is incredibly long...

[Celadon's Penultimate]

I've looked it up.

Einstein's concept of mass-energy equivalence  E = mc^2

E= energy
M= mass
C= speed of light in a vacuum

This means that Energy is just mass moving at the squared speed of light. Therefore by moving at that speed (through normal running or vibrating), matter becomes energy. You don't create energy OR matter; the two are one and the same, and simply exist at different levels.

[neogenetica]

If his theory was correct that is.And IF it is then could we have found a fith state of matter!?!

[Celadon's Penultimate]

If so, then we should have known that years ago. In which case, my own theory is recognized. Despite ANYTHING scientists can do to deal with the physical world, the realm of good old fashioned common sense is beyond them.



"WHAT is the square root of pi?!?!?!"

"1.77245385!"

"What is the atomic weight of oxygen?!?!?!

"15.9994!"

"What do you do when a girl asks if she looks fat in a dress?!?!?!"

"Um, er, uh...carry the one...um...tell the truth???"

*SLAP*

"HAVE I TAUGHT YOU NOTHING???"

[neogenetica]

Or in the case of a geneticist or chemicist you could pull out your dart gun and inject her with fat consuming chemicals/high metabolism genes.

[Celadon's Penultimate]

 Told you, always thinking, and yet never thinking. You do that, and she wonders just what the hell was wrong with her body before.

The TRUE answer? Stall, change the subject and run away while she's thinking about the new topic. She comes back to the topic of her weight, throw something shiny in her path as you flee for your life.

[Celadon's Penultimate]

GifSoup helped me make this GIF from a scene in the show Misfits... very cool

Curtis rewinding time...

<br />GIFSoup

[neogenetica]