first "speed of light" is a velocity not acceleration. But you must accelerate to reach a specific velocity
You are forgetting the ramscoop requires more energy to reach the next 1G of acceleration, which intern requires more fuel (mass) than the previous 1G of acceleration. So as the ramscoop accelerates it needs a continuous […]
There is something of the truth in gatonegrosky’s comments but it is unlikely that the laws of physics aren’t universal (although that is an assumption, not a known fact). What is more likely is that some of the assumptions are wrong.
The vast majority of scientists, myself included, are immersed in the accepted dogma of our […]
What people need to understand is that astrophysicists use the mystery of things like black holes, magnetic fields and dark matter to explain observations that are enigmatic to their Standard Model. Many laypeople may not realize that astrophysics is the only scientific discipline for which magnetic fields are not strictly the result of electric […]
As energy began to condense into matter and matter began to condense into celestial clouds (which didn’t happen with uniform dispersion, which is still not understood), which began to condense into celestial bodies - the earliest celestial bodies - became black holes, about the time areas less dense in matter had had time to condense […]
Uh, what? "the laws of physics on earth doesn’t (sic) apply on (sic) outer space"? The laws are the same everywhere, we just don’t necessarily understand them all. Gravity governs how objects in space affect other objects, and it doesn’t matter where you are in the universe, it still works.
All great discoveries start […]
This is unimaginative. I like the idea of octopuses becoming land forms on a planet with lower land to ocean ratio than ours, or a 6-limbed species - wouldn’t wings be a great feature for one of the limb pairs?
Bonnie Dalzell once hypothesized that we had 4 limbs because we descend from deep water "fish" […]
This is actually from an article referencing this from the Time… but I found it entertaining.
"But humans needn’t flee the galaxy any time soon. First, there’s so much room between the stars that Earth wouldn’t likely feel any effects of a galactic collision, though our constellations would certainly change. And second, a crash is still […]
I came here to post this actually. Galaxies, on a relative scale, are pretty close to each other. If you consider galaxies on a relative scale, there would be a galaxy about every 8-10 meters. However, if you consider the stars within those galaxies on a relative scale, there would only be one star […]
Any vague familiarity with Einstein’s equations via their ubiquity in popular culture is almost certainly doomed to be misinformed and inaccurate. If you’re curious to learn about them I suggest you take an active effort to do so. You can always start with Wikipedia articles.
As far as this man upsetting the validity of Einstein’s theories, […]
You are very wrong. Light has been slowed to only 6 fps in the laboratory and it’s been solidly proven that light actually increases speed to nearly double when traveling through certain solid mediums (glass being one of them). Light speed is not a constant and is fully dependent apon whatever it is traveling through […]