It's the theory of relativity.
By the way the last I will say on this, but Quantum Weirdness is very strange.
Time is really the speeding up and slowing down of particles. Remember chemistry in school? Well, you can speed up some chemical reactions by adding heat to the equation and slow some down by cooling them. Some animals can even go into suspended animation when their bodies encounter extremely cold temperatures, which means that the chemical reactions in their body have slowed right down. From the animal's point of view, time has almost stood still. However, everything around it continues at the same speed (eg: a scientist who has frozen the poor critter in the first place). Same thing happens when you approach the speed of light - the particles in your body slow right down because if they didn't, they would actually be travelling faster than the speed of light, WHICH IS IMPOSSIBLE. Therefore, if you were in a spaceship that travelled at near the speed of light, you would not experience much time passing at all. It would appear instantaneous to you, but 4 billion years would've passed on earth.
It's almost instantaneous. I know I mentioned suspended animation, but that was only to describe how time wouldn't have seemed to pass from the animal's point of view. I didn't mean to imply that the space traveller would be in suspended animation.
In many experiments causality is very different to the observer and the particle in question, but massless particles are something else.
Light is matter, photons are matter. But, the matter doesn't mean that it always have mass, it could be substance like atoms, it could be energy or it could be gravitational/magnetic field.
Pretty fun
Next time I play online games I'm going to sit closer to the screen to give myself an advantage.
It will gave you a great advantage of some nano seconds. You will be unbeatable.
My 300ms ping might negate that somewhat.
No you will still be observing earth a few minutes behind what the people on earth are experiencing at that exact moment.
VY Canis Majoris is not anymore the largest known star. That gif needs updating.I think this .gif is great.
Earth had two moons, scientists claim
The Earth’s moon may once have not been on its own, according to lunar scientists.
By Claire Carter
07 Jul 2013
The scientists noted that their proposition differed from the current leading theory, which holds that the Moon was created from material from a giant body that struck the Earth.
The smaller ‘twin’ moon is believed to have only survived a few million years before it collided with the one we see today, leaving just one.
The theory will be explained by Professor Erik Asphaug, from the University of California at Santa Cruz at a conference about the moon to be held at the Royal Society this September.
He said: "The second moon would have lasted for only a few million years; then it would have collided with the moon to leave the one large body we see today.
“It would have orbited Earth at the same speed and distance and just got slowly sucked in until they hit and then coalesced.”
Prof Asphaug told the Sunday Times he believes the landscape of the moon, which appears to have mountains, are the remains of Earth’s smaller moon when the pair collided. The moon's smaller twin is believed to have been about onethirtieth of the size.
The Earth and its moon are thought to have been formed between 30 million and 130 million years after the birth of the solar system, about 4.6 billion years ago.
A total of nine ‘super-Earths’, planets between one and 10 times the mass of Earth. have previously been found.
Scientists from Harvard put forward a theory last year that suggested the Moon was once part of Earth that spun off after they collided with another body. The study was published in journal Science.
Last month astronomers reported discovered three planets, similar to Earth, orbiting around a single star which may be able to support life.
Researchers estimate there could be as many as 100 billion planets similar to the Earth in our galaxy, the Milky Way.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/space/10165036/Earth-had-two-moons-scientists-claim.html
Did you take any classes relating to orbital dynamics or spacecraft?
Yes. Part of my degree program (Aeronautical Science) dealt with Flight (Aerospace) physiology; which deals with the effects on airplanes (and spacecraft) in high altitudes. These effects are like low oxygen, air pressure and the stresses in puts on the human body. Not because you're in an aircraft with cabin pressure means your body isn't under any form of 'stress'.
Interesting, seems your program was more holistic. Why did/do you hate space? Lack of air is much easier to deal with on paper ;-)
I always found the idea of being up there a scary one. Even during classes we had videos of shuttles in orbit and just the view up there looking down at the earth with nothing but darkness around you is already creeping me out.
