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Speed of light in a vacuum

There is well documented evidence that the speed of light does not stay
constant in certain conditions. Light is often accidentally sucked into
vacuum cleaners, and the forces subjected to it combined with the various
purifying filters often cause the light to change speed, direction, or shape
at random - it's even possible for light to end up travelling backwards in
these cases. The exact cause of this is currently unknown, but it is
suspected that vacuum cleaners are actually mini black holes themselves, and
thus have slight time-space continuum distortion effects on the matter they
suck up.


Hope that clears things up.  ;)
- Eric





On 12/29/06, Clendon Gibson <bsandyman at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> I guess my preferred explanation is that since the speed of light is an
> absolute (depending on conditions. Physicists are so wacky) if a person is
> traveling really fast, there is less "room" left for the light to travel.
> Since light is the basic carrier for energy, this means that any reactions,
> chemical processes, computer clocks, whatever, appear to run slower because
> it takes longer for the light to transmit the energy involved.
>
> I have no idea if this is even correct in terms of relativity.
>
> Now back to collecting photons.
>
> ----- Original Message ----
> From: Don Colbath <dcolbath at austin.rr.com>
> To: Clendon Gibson <bsandyman at yahoo.com>; Austin Robotgroup Mailing List <
> robotgroup at puremagic.com>
> Sent: Thursday, December 28, 2006 5:55:26 PM
> Subject: Re: [Robotgroup] AMAZING opportuneity! Calling All Roboteers! :)
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> I have always thought of the relativistic stuff as like the trains in
> the Doppler experiment.
> To us we see light or other energy traveling past us.  If we get our
> train going at light speed the blurred other train passing us comes into
> focus and we've in effect entered another dimension. Our own then
> becomes a blurr.  With energy coming at us from all directions X,Y,And Z
> there are infinite choices of which dimension to choose.    Another way
> I used to think was that if E=MC Hammer etc. means that if we take a
> baseball and accelerate it to the speed of light squared it will become
> energy.  So, if we can find the right kind of energy catchers mitt we
> can slow down some light and get a free baseball, or at least some kind
> of mass.  Ooh, maybe that's how us sofa spuds seem to gain weight
> without trying. We are absorbing and slowing energy and converting it to
> mass.  Skinny folks like Brooks just kind of run between the photons
> like dodging raindrops.
>
> Don
>
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> The speed of time is one second per second.
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