Speed of light no longer a constant
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Speed of light no longer a constant
Well, it seems IBM has managed to slow down light to 1/300 of the normal 186,000 mps. Supposedly makes it easier to transfer data.
http://news.zdnet.com/IBM+slows+ligh...feed&subj=zdnn
Now if the can speed it up and get warp speed.
http://news.zdnet.com/IBM+slows+ligh...feed&subj=zdnn
Now if the can speed it up and get warp speed.
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Warp one is light speed...
However, warp factors don't increase by doubling, they are based on Cochranes, rather than the regular (1,2,4,8,16,32,64,128, 256, 512, 1024, 2048, 4096, etc...)
Consequently, Warp 9.7 is 1,916 times the speed of light.
Tha, ladies & gentlemen, is what we call- hauling A$$.
Warp 9.7 is 356,897,152 miles per second or 1,284,829,747,200 miles per hour.
Let's se ya catch that with your mere "Hyperspace" velocity...
However, warp factors don't increase by doubling, they are based on Cochranes, rather than the regular (1,2,4,8,16,32,64,128, 256, 512, 1024, 2048, 4096, etc...)
Consequently, Warp 9.7 is 1,916 times the speed of light.
Tha, ladies & gentlemen, is what we call- hauling A$$.
Warp 9.7 is 356,897,152 miles per second or 1,284,829,747,200 miles per hour.
Let's se ya catch that with your mere "Hyperspace" velocity...
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Originally Posted by cia-agent
Warp one is light speed...
However, warp factors don't increase by doubling, they are based on Cochranes, rather than the regular (1,2,4,8,16,32,64,128, 256, 512, 1024, 2048, 4096, etc...)
Consequently, Warp 9.7 is 1,916 times the speed of light.
Tha, ladies & gentlemen, is what we call- hauling A$$.
Warp 9.7 is 356,897,152 miles per second or 1,284,829,747,200 miles per hour.
Let's se ya catch that with your mere "Hyperspace" velocity...
However, warp factors don't increase by doubling, they are based on Cochranes, rather than the regular (1,2,4,8,16,32,64,128, 256, 512, 1024, 2048, 4096, etc...)
Consequently, Warp 9.7 is 1,916 times the speed of light.
Tha, ladies & gentlemen, is what we call- hauling A$$.
Warp 9.7 is 356,897,152 miles per second or 1,284,829,747,200 miles per hour.
Let's se ya catch that with your mere "Hyperspace" velocity...
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Originally Posted by kingfish51
Well, it seems IBM has managed to slow down light to 1/300 of the normal 186,000 mps. Supposedly makes it easier to transfer data.
Hell . . . that's nothing! I can stop light cold! I just turn the light switch off and BAM! Light just stops dead right then and there.
While that supposedly makes it easier to transfer data . . . it definitely makes it easier for me to stub my toe into something since I can no longer see where I'm walking.
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Originally Posted by cia-agent
Warp one is light speed...
However, warp factors don't increase by doubling, they are based on Cochranes, rather than the regular (1,2,4,8,16,32,64,128, 256, 512, 1024, 2048, 4096, etc...)
Consequently, Warp 9.7 is 1,916 times the speed of light.
Tha, ladies & gentlemen, is what we call- hauling A$$.
Warp 9.7 is 356,897,152 miles per second or 1,284,829,747,200 miles per hour.
Let's se ya catch that with your mere "Hyperspace" velocity...
However, warp factors don't increase by doubling, they are based on Cochranes, rather than the regular (1,2,4,8,16,32,64,128, 256, 512, 1024, 2048, 4096, etc...)
Consequently, Warp 9.7 is 1,916 times the speed of light.
Tha, ladies & gentlemen, is what we call- hauling A$$.
Warp 9.7 is 356,897,152 miles per second or 1,284,829,747,200 miles per hour.
Let's se ya catch that with your mere "Hyperspace" velocity...
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OK I have always had this question. If you could travel faster than the speed of light and then slammed on the brakes.... Would you be able to see yourself traveling toward your stopping point ? 
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Originally Posted by SEU1
OK I have always had this question. If you could travel faster than the speed of light and then slammed on the brakes.... Would you be able to see yourself traveling toward your stopping point ?
Lord Helmet, are you OK?
We stopped yet?
Yes Sir!
Good...
Smoke if you got 'em...
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I'm looking forward to hear cia explain DWDM (Dense Wavelength Division Multiplexing) and/or FLASH-OFDM® (FLASH (Fast Low-latency Access with Seamless Handoff) OFDM® (Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing) 
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Originally Posted by MikeF150
I'm looking forward to hear cia explain DWDM (Dense Wavelength Division Multiplexing) and/or FLASH-OFDM® (FLASH (Fast Low-latency Access with Seamless Handoff) OFDM® (Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing)
You can have, like, a bunch-o-optical carrier signals in just, like, one fiber optic wire!!!! It's so cool! You just use a bunch-o-different laser wavelengths to carry each of the bunch-o-signals.
(Just use 50GHz of 25GHz channel spacing in those bad boys for as many as 160 channels.
Coming soon . . . SGMIIDWDM (Super Gigantic Mega Intensely Insane Dense Wavelength Multiplexing) I can't wait!!!!!
Yeah . . . actually I have no idea what any of this means, but I stayed at a Holiday Inn Express last night.
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You betcha!!! DWDM.... using different wavelengths/colors of light to transmit across existing fiber.... (although there's tons of "dark fiber" out there!)
Check out Flarion (http://www.flarion.com ) for OFDM... cool stuff... company was a start-up originally funded/spun off by Lucent (since concept would have never materialized given Lucent's organization) ... mobile broadband.... drive through the hills of NJ and watch video.... Qualcomm just bought these guys out for $600M !!!!
Coming to a neighborhood near you soon!!! 
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Originally Posted by cia-agent
Let's se ya catch that with your mere "Hyperspace" velocity...
"Light Speed's to slow, were gonna have to go straight to LUDICROUS SPEED!"
Dark Helmet, SpaceBalls
KC-10 FE out...
