Scientists Slow The Speed Of Light

by lanfear63

Posted: 9 years ago 28 replies

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BBC News - Scientists slow the speed of light

Pretty simple really, Photons are shaped like the Prius. Change their shape to a ford pickup or any other domestic car. They run slower.

WalkingCarpet Banned 9 years ago

Imagine if they could use the same masking technique to speed it up.
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- lanfear63 9 years ago
  
  Originally Posted by WalkingCarpet
  
  Imagine if they could use the same masking technique to speed it up.
  
  Interesting and original thought there professor. Make the photon like a sports racing car shape (in a sense) and would it go faster than light? I'm sure a brief conference will be taking place here.
  
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Dan Riffle

9 years ago

Now if they could just slow down the speed of smell, Claude could eat chili again without putting his wife in the hospital.

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lanfear63

9 years ago

Here's a question, how fast is the speed of thought?

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tagiscom 9 years ago

That's nothing, take a look at this...

Turning light into matter, this gives Wizards a little more credibility, well the wand part!

Physicists Pave the Way to Turn Light into Matter

Even Muggles will have to take this one seriously!

Yes, if l remember correctly, we can have 14 billion calculations per second, or our thoughts are breaking light speed.

Which means apart from a warp effect, our thoughts are faster than light, or part of our minds are operating at higher dimensions.
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Claude Whitacre

9 years ago

Originally Posted by lanfear63

Here's a question, how fast is the speed of thought?

Slower than you would think.

My first guess, years ago, would be that thought happens at the speed of light. But it actually happens at the speed of the chemical changes in your brain that connect neurons. Maybe 240 or so miles per hour.

And that's the speed of electro-chemical changes along the neural pathway. Some chemical changes are much slower.

The difference in time between when our brain starts to form a thought, and we are aware of it? Maybe a tenth of a second-half a second. There have been brain scans to study the changes in a brain when a choice was made (between images), and when the observer was aware that they made the choice. It was about half a second delay.

Brain scientists have made a real, and in depth study of how we form thoughts, where they occur, and how fast it happens.

Our reflexes are different. They only incorporate the brain stem, and the reactions are faster than our thinking. And it's why some reactions are not under our conscious control....

Like pulling your hand away, when a snake tries to bite your hand. Your memory tricks you into thinking you wanted to move your hand, but it happened automatically.

Oh, I forgot where I was. According to the laws of Quantum Mechanics, everything in our body is made of energy, and energy travels at the speed of light. So, everything that happens in our body, happens at the speed of light. It's why we travel forward in time, and vibrate at the same frequency as cheddar cheese. And if you eat enough cheese, you travel in time faster. It was all in a crop circle I read.

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Cali16

9 years ago

Originally Posted by lanfear63

Here's a question, how fast is the speed of thought?

Depends on the person... for some, it's scary slow!

Originally Posted by Claude Whitacre

My first guess, years ago, would be that thought happens at the speed of light. But it actually happens at the speed of the chemical changes in your brain that connect neurons. Maybe 240 or so miles per hour.

And that's the speed of electro-chemical changes along the neural pathway. Some chemical changes are much slower.

Show off...

(Truth be told, I'm often very impressed with how knowledgeable you seem (pretend?) to be about so many different things. However, I'm typing this complement in tiny print because I'm sure in your old age you can't read it and heaven forbid your head gets any bigger...!)

Originally Posted by Claude Whitacre

It's why we travel forward in time, and vibrate at the same frequency as cheddar cheese.

Speak for yourself. I vibrate at the same frequency as chocolate!

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Claude Whitacre

9 years ago

Originally Posted by Cali16

(Truth be told, I'm often very impressed with how knowledgeable you seem (pretend?) to be about so many different things. However, I'm typing this complement in tiny print because I'm sure in your old age you can't read it and heaven forbid your head gets any bigger...!)

That's very kind of you.

I don't pretend. But your observation that I'm knowledgeable about "so many things", is an illusion. I have the irritating habit of explaining things (as Ian has pointed out), that I'm knowledgeable about. So I post a lot, on very few threads. This looks like I'm talking about many subjects, but I'm not. I'm not well rounded at all.

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positivenegative 9 years ago

Originally Posted by Claude Whitacre

I'm not well rounded at all.

Understatement of the year?

But I guess you have the answer, Claude . . .
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lanfear63

9 years ago

Originally Posted by Cali16

Depends on the person... for some, it's scary slow!

Show off...

Claude is an expert on knitting, bead work, human relationships, cooking and dougnuts.

All this logic and science stuff is totally made up as he goes along.

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Claude Whitacre

9 years ago

Originally Posted by lanfear63

Claude is an expert on knitting, bead work, human relationships, cooking and dougnuts.

Who is Doug? And how do you know that I'm interested in.....his......?

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lanfear63

9 years ago

Originally Posted by Claude Whitacre

Who is Doug? And how do you know that I'm interested in.....his......?

Don't deny it, I have seen the way you stare longingly at Doug's crotch.

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Dan Riffle

9 years ago

Originally Posted by Claude Whitacre

Who is Doug? And how do you know that I'm interested in.....his......?

Originally Posted by lanfear63

Don't deny it, I have seen the way you stare longingly at Doug's crotch.

Ladies, please, take your lovers' quarrel to another room.

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Claude Whitacre

9 years ago

Originally Posted by Dan Riffle

Ladies, please, take your lovers' quarrel to another room.

You mean...your room? Are you going to beg to be included, like last time?

And by the way.......

Originally Posted by Claude Whitacre

. I'm not well rounded at all.

HEY! I left you this easy target, and you say nothing? It was a gift, a nice gesture......

And you had no comment?

I didn't raise you to be so wasteful.

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Dan Riffle

9 years ago

Originally Posted by Claude Whitacre

And by the way.......

HEY! I left you this easy target, and you say nothing? It was a gift, a nice gesture......

And you had no comment?

I didn't raise you to be so wasteful.

Way too easy. I left it for the amateurs. I do have standards, you know.

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Claude Whitacre 9 years ago

Originally Posted by Dan Riffle

Way too easy. I left it for the amateurs. I do have standards, you know.

I obviously don't, I'm trading jabs with you.
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lanfear63

9 years ago

Originally Posted by Claude Whitacre

You knew perfectly well that along with Lord Tagiscom, I was going to try to steer this towards thoughts emanating outwards into the multi-dimensional universe. And then you bought cheese into it so I'm going to have to have some cheese and crackers to test out your theory.

I noticed you did not comment on the main topic, re-shaping photons slows them, and the professors comment on streamlining them.

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Claude Whitacre 9 years ago

Originally Posted by Dan Riffle

Now if they could just slow down the speed of smell, Claude could eat chili again without putting his wife in the hospital.

That's because, unlike you, when I eat chili, it doesn't all dribble down the front of my bib.
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- Dan Riffle 9 years ago
  
  Originally Posted by Claude Whitacre
  
  That's because, unlike you, when I eat chili, it doesn't all dribble down the front of my bib.
  
  At your age, I'm pretty sure we can all guess where your chili "dribbles."
  
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  lanfear63 9 years ago
  
  Originally Posted by Dan Riffle
  
  At your age, I'm pretty sure we can all guess where your chili "dribbles."
  
  What on earth is that avatar saying. Prefer the dog or your old one anyway
  
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  Dan Riffle 9 years ago
  
  Originally Posted by lanfear63
  
  What on earth is that avatar saying. Prefer the dog or your old one anyway
  
  You have to be a Buckeye to read it.
  
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  Claude Whitacre 9 years ago
  
  Originally Posted by lanfear63
  
  What on earth is that avatar saying. Prefer the dog or your old one anyway
  
  It says "OHIO". But, to be honest, I wouldn't have known, without Riffle's clue.
  
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  WalkingCarpet Banned 9 years ago
  
  Originally Posted by Claude Whitacre
  
  It says "OHIO". But, to be honest, I wouldn't have known, without Riffle's clue.
  
  Why not do a drive-by?
  
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  Dan Riffle 9 years ago
  
  Originally Posted by Claude Whitacre
  
  It says "OHIO". But, to be honest, I wouldn't have known, without Riffle's clue.
  
  This is not the least bit surprising to me. You probably need to be from OHIO and a sports fan, I guess. Or, at least, have watched an Ohio State game in public.
  
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  Kurt 9 years ago
  
  Originally Posted by lanfear63
  
  What on earth is that avatar saying. Prefer the dog or your old one anyway
  
  It's the Ohio version of "It's fun to stay at the Y M C A". They don't spell very well.
  
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  Claude Whitacre 9 years ago
  
  Originally Posted by Dan Riffle
  
  At your age, I'm pretty sure we can all guess where your chili "dribbles."
  
  You may spent time, fantasying about my chili dribbling.......but the rest of us think about more important things........
  
  Originally Posted by WalkingCarpet
  
  Why not do a drive-by?
  
  ....except WalkingCarpet.
  
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HeySal 9 years ago

Scientists Slow The Speed Of Light

Oh damn. I hope that doesn't make me age faster.
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- tagiscom 9 years ago
  
  Originally Posted by lanfear63
  
  What on earth is that avatar saying. Prefer the dog or your old one anyway
  
  Yes, l second that, it looks like you have gotten all serious and am trying to push Amway or something?
  
  I think that it reads, "Owe You A Drink"!
  
  Or "Satan is my master"?
  
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Scientists Slow The Speed Of Light

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