I positively don't know

[Howie]

If everything in the universe revolves around mathmatical computations then - If > + x - = -
Does that mean there is more positive energy in the universe than negetive?
:hrm:

[Kaniaz]

There is more antimatter in the universe than there is matter otherwise we wouldn't be here right now. And no, I doubt there's more positive energy than negative energy. Like with numbers, you add two even and get an even, add one odd one even and get a even, add two odds and you get an odd, but that dosen't mean there's more even numbers than odd. Bad example that probably dosen't work here, but nevermind.

[Howie]

I guess I was also looking at it from the stand point of good and bad. I was trying to think Positive. Pun intended. :D
Anti matter is an odd thing. They know it is there but can't really prove it.

[Seeker]

Kaniaz, are you sure there is more anti-matter? Everything I've read says the opposite

Howetzer, anti-matter is created every day and stored in magnetic bottles.
In another 50-100 years, it will be commercially feasible to use it.

Another big problem, is that when anti-matter and matter collide, there is a 100% conversion to energy. In the form of hard gamma rays!

[Howie]

Originally posted by Seeker
Kaniaz, are you sure there is more anti-matter? Everything I've read says the opposite
Howetzer, anti-matter is created every day and stored in magnetic bottles.
In another 50-100 years, it will be commercially feasible to use it.

Thats how Kaniaz knows their is more anti matter. He is stockpile the shit and is going to create a monopoly.

I thought that I recently read that they now believe that there is not enough anti matter & matter alike to support what they thought the universe consisted of.

[Seeker]

Ah yes, the mysterious dark matter.
Cannot be seen, felt, detected, yet in order for the universe to have it's current structure, 90% of it must be composed of dark matter.

[Kaniaz]

I meant matter, mybad. I don't know why I put antimatter. If there was more antimatter, we'd not be here right now!

[Umbrasquall]

Originally posted by Kaniaz
There is more antimatter in the universe than there is matter otherwise we wouldn't be here right now. And no, I doubt there's more positive energy than negative energy. Like with numbers, you add two even and get an even, add one odd one even and get a even, add two odds and you get an odd, but that dosen't mean there's more even numbers than odd. Bad example that probably dosen't work here, but nevermind.

I think you mean 'matter' not anti-matter. However that's dependant upon what you encompass as our 'universe'. There supposedly is an equal amount of matter and anti-matter created at the beginning, and they will eventually cancel out. I believe there is proof of galaxies and universes completely made out of anti-matter. I guess they would be called anti-galaxies.

[Umbrasquall]

Sorry Kaniaz didn't see you already corrected yourself.

Originally posted by Howetzer
If everything in the universe revolves around mathmatical computations then - If > + x - = -
Does that mean there is more positive energy in the universe than negetive?
:hrm:

Definitely not everything revolves around math. In fact it is proven that at extreme limits of a quantity. The laws of physics do not apply.

Examples:

Anti-matter (most obvious)
Theory of relativity (faster velocity = slower time)
Supercritical liquids (very cold liquids defy gravitational force)

[Howie]

Originally posted by Squall
Anti-matter (most obvious) *
Theory of relativity (faster velocity = slower time) *
Supercritical liquids (very cold liquids defy gravitational force)]

Excellent point squall.
If time is to stand still @ the speed of light then what if you go faster. > Ya I know- it is unable to go faster than the speed of light. But come on, these are just theories which seem to change every month.

[theroguechemist]

Hasn't the Theory of Relativity been time-tested and proven scientifically true for about 75 years now?

[Kaniaz]

Yes. But 75 years of testing and being "proven" is nothing.

For what must of been 250 years, people believed flies formed from dirt. There were explanations for it and everything, but then it all flew out the window when Leuweenhok made a microscope and went and stared at things in a pond.

[Howie]

Originally posted by Kaniaz
Yes. But 75 years of testing and being \"proven\" is nothing.

That is so true. I have the utmost respect for scientist. There brains, theories, and their efforts. But people are so arrogant. The dinasoaurs roamed the earth for how many years compared to us. and we thiink we know so much. We have not even exsisted in the whole sceem of things.

[azwe_echo]

light-speed - ooo this is getting into quantum theory! :-P

Faster-than-light travel is ambiguously named. There is a difference between traveling faster than light, locally, and simply getting from point A to point B, globally, faster than light would passing by a usual route. Locally, faster-than-light travel is widely considered an impossibility without somehow finding a way to warp space-time topology ~ this is to say that winning a race against light from point A to point B is not possible. However, globally, faster-than-light travel is made more possible through theoretical interpretations involving worm holes and warp drives. Worm holes could be thought of as teleportation of sorts. The two points of interest are linked with negative energy that is maintained with light-speed revolution. Some believe this would negate the existence of the space between the points, resulting in teleportation-esque travel. Of course, the problem with this is that we have to have been at our destination in order to set up the exit of the wormhole...so it won't be practical as a first venture...but more like mass-transit of the future. Warp drives involve more of what i initially said about warping space-time. Some believe the "rules" of the universe can be bent or warped to extend the universe in order to allow local faster-than-light travel to be maintained on timelike curves.

Personally, i don't see how some people make certain connections. i've long thought of space travel and the timelike, lightlike, and spacelike world lines involved, without knowing what exactly i was venturing into. Faster-than-sound travel results in a sonic boom and an 'outrunning' of sound that creates silence. i tried to grasp faster-than-light travel similarly by concluding that faster-than-light travel would result in an accommodating "auroral" boom and an 'outrunning' of light that would perhaps create darkness...but i guess it doesn't work that way. i just can't quite grasp how someone recognized the correlation between light travel and time travel.

i love it though...it's so fascinating!

[WerBurN]

they had an experiment at a university last year i believe, in which they made a beam of light go faster than the speed of light...if i recall the beam fully exited the tubing in which it was going through before it had entirely finished entering, thus proving some sort of time bending....
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/781199.stm

[ShadowNightWing]

Yeah Wonderful Thread... That sonic boom is although a direct relation with the patterns of sound traveling.. Air carrys this Sonic Boom! that way we hear it.. You wouldn't hear that same boom in space.. You definately have your Lighting Speeds Boom effect also. Think about whenever there is a really bad storm and you see that streak of Lighting Flash across the sky and moments later you here crackling of thunder, which is the sound that is process by that lighting. Faster speeds does slow time within the surronding enviroments of where that particular force of speed is traveling.. If you were traveling at light speed here on earth Everything moving would look as if it were standing still. I love Velocitation.

[azwe_echo]

from WerBurN's link:

"In the other experiment, a pulse of light that enters a transparent chamber filled with caesium gas reaches speeds 300 times the normal speed of light.
According to the researchers, the main part of the light pulse leaves the far side of the chamber even before it enters at the near side!"

It sounds to me like this "transparent chamber" is acting just as a speculative wormhole - the front of the light beam exits the very instant it enters. Instead of passing through the entrance and into the tube, it passes through the entrance directly to and out the exit...it's like a small wormhole! :-P

ok...i get the connection a little better than i thought. i guess my real confusion is more of how light-speed could result in variable or even controlled time-travel. Perhaps to the future, because this doesn't go against the grain, but how could this go against the flowing current and permit travel back in time? Even if it were to permit travel back in time, it seems that then it wouldn't permit travel forward through time...like one or the other. Actually, now that i think of it, i believe i've read of skeptics who support travel to the future but not to the past, or vice versa...like they don't believe both could be possible...or maybe i'm just imagining it :? eh, i'm sure i'm not imagining, there are skeptics for everything and most of them disgust me...
GO OPEN-MINDEDNESS! :dreaming:

[AirRick101]

What is anti-matter? Is it tangible?