Voyager 1: 15 Billion km !

[clayj]

Interestingly, there is no such thing as "any given instant", even with godlike perception. "Now" is a local thing and is not universal. In a static universe, perhaps there would be "universal" time. But in a dynamic one? No.

Are you sure about that? I was thinking of "godlike perception" in terms of "the ability to know the quantum state of EVERY particle in the Universe simultaneously"... a perception beyond what is allowed by light-speed.

But yeah, there is no now anywhere else except right here, where I am sitting. The rest of y'all are a bit delayed.

 

[Timepass]

I particularly like the way that time moves at different rates depending on your location in the universe itself. So even if you could have instantaneous communication with another star system like on "Star Trek" the other end of the conversation could appear sped up from one person's perspective and slowed down from the other, even though there's nothing actually wrong with the equipment or the link.

Bloody brilliant the universe isn't it?

in thoery yes but in relaity we wouldnt really noticed a difference due to the fact that the relitivy speeds would be under .1 the speed of light for the most part (under that speed you dont really bother with relitivy) and it be around .2-.3 before we could even noticed it.

But subspace also only has a limited range of instance comincacation (ok so I am a geek)

 

[clayj]

But subspace also only has a limited range of instance comincacation (ok so I am a geek)

There's no scientific basis I'm aware of to support the concept of a "subspace" which can be used for communications, as it is done in Star Trek. That's pure SF right there.

 

[Fukui]

And with the delay between sun and earth being 8 minutes and 18 seconds, that means...

The delay is something like 13 hours and 50 minutes!

Is it just me, or is light speed too slow?

 

[Killyp]

Gawd it's incredibly limiting...

Actually it's great because it helps us to determine the age and distance of things and stuff.



Another great thing about time is that we have no way of telling if time is going forwards or backwards by looking at the way particles behave. For all we know we could be living in a collapsing universe where time is running backwards, and because our thoughts would run backwards too, we wouldn't know anything odd.

Fortunately the scale we live on allows us to see how particles behave in mass, so we know that time is currently running forwards. For example, a car would 'un-rust' if time was going backwards.

Ahh I love all that stuff...

 

[jsw]

There's no scientific basis I'm aware of to support the concept of a "subspace"...

Oh, please. They talk about one here. 12 knots for that one.

 

[yg17]

computer having been running for nearly 30 years.

So, we can conclude that it isn't running Windows.

 

[clayj]

So, we can conclude that it isn't running Windows.

Before you get too happy, it ain't running Mac OS, either.

 

[caveman_uk]

isnt alpha centari 1 light year away? our closest neighboring star?

Actually just over 4 light years away. Proxima centauri is the nearest star but it's in the same system as alpha centauri - the alpha centauri system contains three stars.

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