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| Thread ID: 74295 | 2006-11-17 17:14:00 | Speed Of Light Exceeded? | SurferJoe46 (51) | PC World Chat |
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| 500018 | 2006-11-20 09:52:00 | Most of the English motorcycles I had were capable of exceeding the speed of light pretty easily. Just go along any road at night, apply a good amount of throttle and pretty soon you found that all went dark as you exceeded the speed of light. Often the power was insufficient to burst quickly through the light barrier, you went through a yellow shift, then a red shift, and finally full dark as you hit L1. It didn't happen straight away, but it did happen often. | R2x1 (4628) | ||
| 500019 | 2006-11-20 11:27:00 | lol, now you mention it i got my 400cc dirt bike to go faster than light just the other day... i was goin flat out and then it felt like i had lost traction and had a falling sensation right before everything went black, i found myself in a ditch afterwards:rolleyes: | motorbyclist (188) | ||
| 500020 | 2006-11-20 11:43:00 | through a yellow shift, then a red shift, and finally full dark as you hit L1 . L=1 (normally regarded as impossible) would be the point at which an electron falls into the nucleus wouldn't it? did you experience a redshift looking behind you? technically observers behind you would observe you redshifting whilst observers infront would observe you violetshifting, and you would see any objects/observers infront of you violetshifting into UV (which we cannot see much of, if any):nerd: wouldn't the view ahead of you become brighter as the number of photons incident on your eyes be increased, or rather you become brighter as you approach an observer (similar to a sonic boom, but light does not behave like sound, so rather than amplitude determining brightness it is simply the number of photons, which you are reflecting back at observer but due to your speed the photons are creating a very dense "wall" infront of you untill you break the light barrier at which point photons would not keep up, so i guess you would have to absorb incident photons or have them pass through you . . . . maybe Einstein said it was impossible for simplicity lol . /physics lecture) if i'm incorrect any scholars can feel free to explain why i'm wrong which bikes did ya have? |
motorbyclist (188) | ||
| 500021 | 2006-11-20 17:24:00 | In my days of Brit bikes, (Triumph Trident 750, BSA Victor 441, Norton 850, BSA Gold Star 500, and AJS...(forget the size of that thing)), I noticed the designers installed a Zener Diode (www.google.com). I am sure this was a time-shift device that would allow the driver to exceed the output of the headlamp and thus travel faster than the speed of light. t and v would become very distorted, but I don't remember red or violet shift. Quite a few times I broke the time-space continuim and would be transported to some strange hospital where the aliens would have me all hooked up to machines with tubes running into and out of me. |
SurferJoe46 (51) | ||
| 500022 | 2006-11-20 18:58:00 | Most of the English motorcycles I had were capable of exceeding the speed of light pretty easily . Just go along any road at night, apply a good amount of throttle and pretty soon you found that all went dark as you exceeded the speed of light . British motorcycle? In that case the speed of light would have been between 40 & 45mph . At that point the generator would start to fail, taking you through yellow shift then red shift, after which the light would go out completely and you would pass rapidly through a blue funk then run off the road . It gets pretty dark in the bottom of one of those ditches . Cheers Billy 8-{) :D |
Billy T (70) | ||
| 500023 | 2006-11-20 19:12:00 | For some unfathomable reason, British m/bike manufacturers just couldn't conceive motorcyclists wanting to ride at night . Even messrs . Phil Irving and Phil Vincent could only fit an apology of a Miller dynamo barely producing 50 watts onto the "Worlds Fastest Standard Motorcycle" It had a sprocket on the drive shaft with a couple of teeth engaging into the centre row of the triple primary chain drive . Yet there was room to have fitted a 12v car dynamo . The Lucas one was better, later models that had crimped wires into the commutator could be well over-run without solder flinging, and could be screwed up to 75 watts . Then it was possible to fit a huge 48 watt 6v bulb as was used in VWs, which combined with a 'sports' P700 lamp, produced a more reasonable beam, that allowed a speed up to about 50mph :) . Then again Lucas only produced what the manufacturers asked for . |
Terry Porritt (14) | ||
| 500024 | 2006-11-20 20:47:00 | British motorcycle? In that case the speed of light would have been between 40 & 45mph. At that point the generator would start to fail, taking you through yellow shift then red shift, after which the light would go out completely and you would pass rapidly through a blue funk then run off the road. It gets pretty dark in the bottom of one of those ditches. Cheers Billy 8-{) :D It was pretty dark in ALL of those ditches. Lucas = Lights U Can Almost See. I recall a T shirt with "Lucas - King of darkness" on the front, and "Limey's drink warm beer - Lucas fridges" on the back. Lucas are still busy, (they make strobe lights for stealth fighters). |
R2x1 (4628) | ||
| 500025 | 2006-11-20 20:50:00 | I still swear that the Brits believe that evil spirits create electricity and wire their Lucas systems accordingly . Positive earth (ground here in the US) is about the stupidest system ever . Everybody knows that UFO's are wired positive earth and they have been crashing into the Wiltshire ( . dailymail . co . uk/pages/live/articles/news/news . html?in_article_id=398161&in_page_id=1770" target="_blank">www . dailymail . co . uk) and Southampton ( . bbc . co . uk/southampton/features/cropcircles/cropcircles_history . shtml" target="_blank">www . bbc . co . uk) flatlands for years, burning crop circles into the fields . If only the UFO-makers would change polarity! :lol: |
SurferJoe46 (51) | ||
| 500026 | 2006-11-20 20:53:00 | ....................... Lucas are still busy, (they make strobe lights for stealth fighters). xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx. <your punchline was better so I removed mine!> |
SurferJoe46 (51) | ||
| 500027 | 2006-11-20 21:02:00 | L=1 (normally regarded as impossible) would be the point at which an electron falls into the nucleus wouldn't it? did you experience a redshift looking behind you? technically observers behind you would observe you redshifting whilst observers infront would observe you violetshifting, and you would see any objects/observers infront of you violetshifting into UV (which we cannot see much of, if any):nerd: wouldn't the view ahead of you become brighter as the number of photons incident on your eyes be increased, or rather you become brighter as you approach an observer (similar to a sonic boom, but light does not behave like sound, so rather than amplitude determining brightness it is simply the number of photons, which you are reflecting back at observer but due to your speed the photons are creating a very dense "wall" infront of you untill you break the light barrier at which point photons would not keep up, so i guess you would have to absorb incident photons or have them pass through you.... maybe Einstein said it was impossible for simplicity lol. /physics lecture) if i'm incorrect any scholars can feel free to explain why i'm wrong which bikes did ya have? Lucas electrons fell off the nucleus (Laughing as they went). The photons had drag chutes so the incident wind would blow them over your shoulder. I had assorted Triumphs and the oil patches to prove it. A Norton Dom 7, Aerial 500 single, AJS 500 Single, and a Sunbeam (with 3 wind tone horns that had 3 foot(ish) trumpets). All had lighting systems that would have won the King's award for wartime precautions during the blackout. |
R2x1 (4628) | ||
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