Author Topic: JOHN TITOR - Time Traveller - Is the war coming? (Read 2520 times)

Anonymous · « **Reply #15 on:** September 28, 2004, 09:16:31 pm »

Quote from: "Orasu"

*Loads up weapon arsenal. Also remembers to get crowbar just in case of alien invasion*

I'm all good. Bring it on .

Water don't forget your glasses of water and a bat yeah a bat....swing away

Anonymous · « **Reply #16 on:** September 29, 2004, 12:34:33 am »

Yeah, this wasn't just some regular, run-of-the-mill idiot who wanted to fool people. The pure fact that he has never shown back up proves he isn't out to grab attention. His story was well made up and well developed and he over the many, many pages he wrote, he only goofed once or twice.

Still, had he actually been from he future, he could have done much more to prove it.

Anonymous · « **Reply #17 on:** September 29, 2004, 08:32:43 am »

Hmm...I heard about this story before but had never actually read too much up on it. However Zink, I was under the impression that they had never reached absolute zero, they weren't able to. I had heard of a group of scentists that had attempted to, but was only ably to reach about 2K but never was able to reach zero....

And wouldn't it be technically impossible to shoot a laser through an ice block of absolute zero because isn't that when all matter, all partices stop? So how would the light be able to go through? But then again I'm not too sure if light's particles are able to be stopped by absolute zero, but it's something to ponder..... Very interesting about this guy though.....The thing is though, that he predicted that there would be a war in 2005, and looking at our political climate at current....it wouldn't be as hard as you'd think....

Anywayz if there was a war for Israel, I'd fight for Israel...

Ketamininja · « **Reply #18 on:** September 29, 2004, 11:02:51 am »

Eclipse, I'm not wanting to go into your last remark there

I'm not sure about light stopping at Zero K. Matter stops moving because there are bonds holding the atoms together - solid/liquid/gas is all a type of matter, just the BONDs are more free.

Couldn't find an exact answer, but here's an interesting quote:
The reason that light is so important for our understanding of the Universe is because light interacts with matter, and that interaction can tell us a great deal about the nature of the matter.

If light were matter, then surely we could capture it in a container? New torches are out now, light in a box.

Anonymous · « **Reply #19 on:** September 29, 2004, 11:11:27 am »

It reminds me of a discussion I read about between Einstein and one of his colleagues about the nature of light.

He was asking his friend:

"If light is matter, how can it go through glass ? So it must be some kind of wave.

But then again if light is not matter, how can it be affected by gravitational forces ?" (as Einstein discovered).

I think that currently light is seen as being particles (photons) and waves. I'm not sure how that can be though.

Any theoretical physicist in the room ?

Anonymous · « **Reply #20 on:** September 29, 2004, 01:01:30 pm »

Not really. Trying to figure out what light is makes my head hurt.

It's interesting, but I will let someone else discover it

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Ketamininja · « **Reply #21 on:** September 29, 2004, 03:49:09 pm »

Matter is anything that has mass and occupies space.
If this is true, then photons weigh something (although perhaps not measurable correctly using any scale we know), and occupy a small part of space.... right?

The question is, perhaps not only matter is affected by gravity? The gravitational force could have an effect on light waves (although very very small).

Recently, scientists looked at what they think is the edge of the universe - a rough area where stars are born and die in a blink of the eye! Not possible under E=mc2 law... I think they tried to explain it but was a bit flakey... can't find much online about it