Ah, I should've read billy_joule's post more closely, apparently there have been apparent experiments done, but as you said rootone, none have really been successful at it.
Why exactly would you think this would be so hard to do and based on that, what specific hurdles would one have to...
Hmmmmmm that is interesting. I've literally been researching this for years and that itself never came up. I wonder if this has ever been purposefully manufactured? O.o
Ok, I've got a project I want to try, mostly for the "why the heck not?" idea, just for the giggles, you know? I just want to see if it's even possible to do. Here's the goal:
Goal: Create a complete and uninterrupted sphere of electricity.
This isn't as easy as one might think. It doesn't...
First of all I'm not sure where in the world this topic would fit at, so I put it in Electrical Engineering because my assumption is that electrical engineers may have the answers for this question more so than anyone else, but mods, if you feel this thread would be better off in a different...
Thank you guys, this pretty much answered my question. This is pretty cool, I thought I had a good grasp of relativity, but this makes it so much clearer for me now. Thanks a lot! :)
Hmm...ok, now I understand what you're saying. I suppose, what I'm trying to get to is this:
Let's say a probe was hypothetically able to achieve .99% the speed of light, and as it's accelerating and moving through space, it's constantly shooting back a laser towards Earth for communication...
phyzguy, hmmmm seems you're right about the speed. When I was doing my research for some reason I got a number much greater than that one. You are correct, Voyager 1 is only traveling 0.005% the speed of light.
I somewhat disagree with the notion that we aren't even close to being able to cause...
I was having a discussion with a colleague earlier today regarding exoplanet exploration. Being that the biggest challenge for mankind to travel to distant planets is that time dilation would make such an extreme effect that by the time we reached our destination thousands of years may have...
Thanks guys for your answers. I didn't really need, and still don't need, people to tell me what I already know, nor do I need to prove myself to anyone. I asked a question, which still hasn't been answered since the OP. Unless you're actually intending to answer my question, please don't post.
No offense taken, trust me, but I seriously don't understand why everyone thinks or assumes that when I say I can carry on conversations about physics I don’t already KNOW that it's different than actually doing physics. I know that, it's blatantly obvious. Thinking about a bubble and blowing a...
Thank you Boas, I'll check that book out. I'm quite sure my situation is the same as yours, so that seems like a good direction to start with. When it comes to physics I don't just understand concepts and whatnot, I can really hold legitimate conversations with people who know a whole lot more...
Alright. I've done some college algebra, and when it went to trig I had a really hard time. I graduated high school in 2007, so I suppose I'm a young buck. When I graduated I had done basic algebra and geometry. In science I had done physics and chemistry, all also basic courses. I suppose I can...
I think I'm wanting to study on my own what I can until I get resources to go to college for a full scale degree, yes. That includes both math and physics, I'm sure there are some free resources around the internet that I can learn a great deal of this from already. What I'm really needing is...