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Gakre

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PostPosted: Mon Aug 20, 2012 6:14 am


... which summon rays of light from the stars to strike your foes. That sound like an impractical idea.
If we assume the attack to travel at light speed, it would still take at least 8 minutes for the attack to travel from the sun to you enemy. It would also take more than 4 years to go from the closets star outside our solar system to here.
PostPosted: Mon Aug 20, 2012 9:30 am


Unless your magic involves accelerating the light to some degree. Considering how light basically weighs nothing, you could probably accelerate it 100C with a minimal application of force, provided you knew how apply force to light from long distances.

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Gakre

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PostPosted: Mon Aug 20, 2012 10:04 am


Wouldn't that also assume that something which contain significant mass, energy or information to be able to travel trough non-distorted 3-dimentional space at a higher velocity than the speed of light? User Image
PostPosted: Mon Aug 20, 2012 11:03 am


Barring optical illusions, there's really nothing saying they can't.
The only reason the entire "Can't go faster than light" thing came into existence is because going faster than light would play tricks on the eyes.

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PostPosted: Mon Aug 20, 2012 11:45 am


I'd rather guess it's based on us not knowing 'bout anything which can exceed it. User Image
From what I understand, most of the research regarding the Faster Than Light phenomenon is mainly supported by: Measurements of distant mass/waveforms, which probably affected by illusions (such as displacement); theories based on probably unnatural assumed environments; and theories relying on too many assumptions, due to phenomenons which are either too difficult to measure/define or considered too dangerous to recreate for defining actually accurate and precise enough data.

Beside: "Playing tricks on people's eyes" by exceeding the speed of light sound like quite the overkill. We don't need to go anywhere near the speed of light to trick our optical observation skills by speed alone. Our brain does a great job, filtering out assumed unnecessary details and making assumptions to fill our blind spots, for it to get easily tricked.
PostPosted: Mon Aug 20, 2012 1:05 pm


It doesn't actually do anything like that. It causes a whole bunch of optical phenomena, but people took it the wrong way.
The line of thought was "If something effects me before I can see it, something's wrong". People just don't like the thought of getting punched and seeing the punch a second later. It would be weird.
'Course, acceleration doesn't work like that. You would always see something coming. Relativity states that light always travels at light speed compared to what it's coming off of, so it doesn't matter how fast you're going. If you manage speeds of two million C, the light reflected off of you will be going two million and one C.
The light coming off your arse would be going one C slower than you in the same direction. Thus anyone going less than one C slower than you would never stand a chance at seeing you.

There's a similar phenomena revolving around black holes. They say time stops at the event horizon, but that would be impossible. The event horizon is simply the point where light can no longer escape, and thus you can't observe what's going on any more.
It's strange, but we seem to claim too much of what we observe to be truth. That causes errors when what we're observing messes up our observations. Anything too small, too fast, or possessive of too much gravity seems to cause errors.

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PostPosted: Mon Aug 20, 2012 3:58 pm


Accidently walks in to a Physicists lab, "sorry just looking for the girls room" eek
PostPosted: Mon Aug 20, 2012 4:01 pm


Just use some kind of magic or something... SCHOOL HASN'T STARTED FOR ME SO I DON'T WISH TO LEARN BEFORE IT DOES START classified_fu


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Gakre

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PostPosted: Mon Aug 20, 2012 7:45 pm


Divine_Malevolence
It's strange, but we seem to claim too much of what we observe to be truth.
If we assume truth to be nothing but the opposite of lie, we get a relative truth. It looks like people mix up "the truth" and "my truth" more often than we mix up "that's offensive" and "I am offended", from my point of view.

Divine_Malevolence
Anything too small, too fast, or possessive of too much gravity seems to cause errors.
Don't forget "seemingly insignificant relative to something else". This is probably the most common illusion we know of, regardless if it is something picked up by our senses or a thought.
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