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Re: Ask me a question

Unread postby cynicalheretic » Tue 02 Jan 2007, 23:18:40

Lets just call myth busters and see if they will test this out.
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Re: Ask me a question

Unread postby Chicken_Little » Tue 02 Jan 2007, 23:23:34

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('cynicalheretic', 'L')ets just call myth busters and see if they will test this out.


there's no need, i tried it with my dad's private jet and it totally didn't work.

i'm sorry there were so many casualties.
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Re: Ask me a question

Unread postby Niagara » Tue 02 Jan 2007, 23:34:07

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('PenultimateManStanding', 'I')'ve got one that always puzzled me: how come if a twin goes up in space and flies at great speed relative to the earth and comes back a long time later, his twin on earth has aged more than him? isn't speed relative? if there is no absolute speed (except c which is the same in all reference frames) then wouldn't the twin on earth be speeding fast relative to the twin in the spaceship? I get the idea of time in a gravity well, but the relative speed thing always stumped me.

You're referring to the so-called "twin paradox". To understand the solution you need to consider the differences between special and general relativity.

The twin on earth is in an inertial references frame; he did not accelerate at any time during the brother's journey. The traveling twin accelerated then decelerated during each leg of the trip. This non-inertial frame is much more complex and changes the time equations.
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Re: Ask me a question

Unread postby TITAN » Tue 02 Jan 2007, 23:36:21

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('cynicalheretic', 'N')ew question.



You never answered my question back on page 4 or 5...




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Re: Ask me a question

Unread postby Chicken_Little » Tue 02 Jan 2007, 23:45:36

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('TITAN', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('cynicalheretic', 'N')ew question.



You never answered my question back on page 4 or 5...




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You're fired, answerman. Clear your desk and Security will escort you out.
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Re: Ask me a question

Unread postby PenultimateManStanding » Tue 02 Jan 2007, 23:54:43

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Chicken_Little', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('TITAN', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('cynicalheretic', 'N')ew question.



You never answered my question back on page 4 or 5...




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You're fired, answerman. Clear your desk and Security will escort you out.
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Re: Ask me a question

Unread postby cynicalheretic » Wed 03 Jan 2007, 11:14:18

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('TITAN', 'I')s it likely that the zionists and xtian fundies created the wars in the gulf to ultimately destroy any remaining evidence of modern-humans' true beginnings on this planet as an experiment carried out by extra-terrestrials and not some magical, mystical god?

There are reports that some of the first places the us troops ransacked were museums...



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No, because all life started in the area now known as the united states. Also all of the oil is actually here underneath the united states, we just have drilled far enough. Also, the oil that Saudia Arabia, Kuwait and everyone else drills from are just offshoots of the giant oil spring underneath the united states and they are in fact stealing and selling us back our own oil
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