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mps
06/08/06, 02:43 PM
Someone want to discuss/help increase my understanding of these hypothetical superluminal particles? Apparently it's very complicated: like their rest mass is imaginary.
mps
07/03/06, 05:23 PM
Bump for francis to come and make a witty comment, hence revitalising this thread.
allelish
07/03/06, 05:32 PM
uuuuuh VAGINA!
mps
07/03/06, 05:37 PM
uuuuuh VAGINA!
Haha, one day someone will come in here and actually want to discuss this with me...hopefully. 'This' as in the topic, not vaginas, as I know you're always around to do that.
Zeran
07/03/06, 10:05 PM
i know that they have tachyon detection grids on the enterprise to see the cloaked romulan warship.
not being a dick, just saying that's what i know of them.
mps
07/04/06, 09:24 AM
i know that they have tachyon detection grids on the enterprise to see the cloaked romulan warship.
not being a dick, just saying that's what i know of them.

A lot of the stuff in star trek is more than just something someone thought up for fun, although I cant confirm whether this is feasible or not.

But other stuff in star trek, like using antimatter as fuel - that is possible. The annihilation of matter and antimatter produces an absolute HUGE ammount of energy (E=mc^2 and c=300000000m/s). The only problem is it takes about a billion times more energy to actually produce antimatter in the first place (and they do it about 15mins from my house actually). But yeah, once this is a harnessable type of energy, we won't ever have to worry about our energy sources being depleted.

NASA actually are researching into making a rocket fueled by anitmatter in the future.
Zeran
07/05/06, 06:27 PM
antimatter is just a hypothesis though i thought. i didn't think anybody had actually made it yet. from what i know, it would be extremely difficult to make and probably the costs would be way more than science could afford. but theoretically, yes it would be a great source of energy. also in star trek they talk about the particle no one has seen yet, the graviton.
FeynmanWannabe
07/05/06, 06:45 PM
antimatter is just a hypothesis though i thought. i didn't think anybody had actually made it yet. from what i know, it would be extremely difficult to make and probably the costs would be way more than science could afford. but theoretically, yes it would be a great source of energy. also in star trek they talk about the particle no one has seen yet, the graviton.
You might be thinking of supersymmetric partners which are, right now, still entirely theoretical. This is not the case with antimatter. In fact, Fermilab near Chicago is a proton/antiproton collider.

Sorry Mark. I don't really know anything about Tachyons.
mps
07/06/06, 05:03 AM
You might be thinking of supersymmetric partners which are, right now, still entirely theoretical. This is not the case with antimatter. In fact, Fermilab near Chicago is a proton/antiproton collider.

Sorry Mark. I don't really know anything about Tachyons.

At CERN they regularily make antimatter, although it is hard to contain (you have to keep it in a Penning Trap). I think they make it at SLAC too.

Ah well.
adelphi_rocks
07/30/06, 06:24 PM
they mentioned it's a particle that goes faster than the speed on light on the sci-fi channel, but it could not exist because nothing goes faster than the speed of light, otherwise space-time would be ruptured. so yeah...