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*please don't get into religeous arguments here. they always end in flaming.*
molsen said:oh and for those of you naysayers about interstellar space travel, consider this:
--we used to think the sound barrier was impassible. (more specifically, theoretical work "indicated the pressures generated on a body as it neared Mach 1 would go to infinity, and the drag would therefore be so great that no aircraft could pass through the barrier") sound familiar? the mass of any object approaching the speed of light approaches infinity?
--we used to think the world was flat and that you could sail off the edge.
but knowledge was acquired and we passed those barriers. just because our current knowledge doesn't allow for interstellar travel, doesn't mean it's impossible. it's just impossible RIGHT NOW.
yes, I've heard that theory of the big bang. though I'm more into Quantum physics.Infomatic said:Some of you guys haven't heard of String Theory/M-Theory?
Read up on it, it'll explain the universe to you.
Also does a very good job of explaining the Big Bang. No, the "universe" as we know it did not exist before the big bang, since that's the conventional definition of the Universe -- What exists after the Big Bang. Beyond the Big Bang, there is the Multiverse. Universe implies one, Multiverse implies many. Although I'm not sure if you'd call what existed before the universe the 'multiverse' or if that's just the term to describe all the various universes in one.
Anyways, before the Big Bang (a more accurate way of saying it would be, "beyond the universe") there are the Membranes. They are what contain the strings that form the universe. Thats where String Theory (Strings) and M-Theory (those strings woven into a fabric) come in.
Spartan666 said:You seem to be forgetting that the conjecture concerning the speed of light is based on scientific LAW. You mentioned the sound barrier problem was based on "Theoritical Work". And the "world was flat" is just a stupid notion and was not based on any scientific testing, so I don't see how you can even use that in your argument.
Einstein's theory has been tested and retested in thousands of possible situation, and it has NEVER failed. It is supported by Newtoninan physics and works perfectly with quantum mechanics as well. It only fails in a black hole, and most scientists believe that we will NEVER be able to travel faster than light. However, it may be possible for us to travel to another part of the unvierse or a paralled universe through a spacetime tunnel. I posted about this in this discussion just a few posts back.
RockyZ said:Theories are meant to be proven wrong. There are many scientific theories that are proven wrong everyday. What makes you think a guy from decades ago could write laws that are so "perfect" (which is already stated in this thread is nto possible), that they could not be proven wrong?