Another train related question.
Imgine a larger circular rail track upon whcih there is a long train, so long in fact that the last carriage joins up with the front.
Wth me so far?
So next step is to do away with the carriage ends so you in effect one circular carriage on wheels on the track.
Still folowing?
Now put a circular rail track inside and another similar train on top. And repeat this.
Now the outermost train starts off to run at 500 mph. So the does train inside it and the one inside that and so on.
If you evauate air from each train expect for the smallest one wher you are sitting, you are only overcoming resistance in the driving gear so it
should be doable.
Given enough trains, you should be able to go faster than the speed of light.
So it that possible and could you do it on a budget of £ 250?
LOL!!!
The inner most train wont go any faster than the outer one...
You are making up laws of physics here!
Energy cant be made or destroyed....FACT
I didn't realise the pubs down your way were open so early
eh?
tom
LOL you are bonkers!
apart from the whole lot exploding from the G-forces, even if that could be overcome the trains that were nearing the speed of light would increase in
mass to the point of becoming immovable.
What you’re describing is the train equivalent of a multistage rocket!
[Edited on 15/2/08 by Mr Whippy]
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Originally posted by tegwin
The inner most train wont go any faster than the outer one...
You are making up laws of physics here!
Energy cant be made or destroyed....FACT
Speed of light is roughly
6706I66Z9 mph
So you would need I34IZ34 trains within trains to reach the magic c.
Unfortunately assuming you could solve the small packaging issue of doing that I suspect the gravitational effect would be to instantaneously create a
dirty great black hole where you're track used to be.
What you need is a MagLev inside a vacuum tunnel. There was a show on Discovery Channel a while back with a floating tunnel a couple of 100 feet under
the surface with a vacuum connecting London and New York, the predicted something like 7000 miles an hour or something.
Relative to the speed of light if you turned the lights on a maglev doing 7000mph surly the light coming from the lights would be doing the speed of
light plus 7000
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Originally posted by iank
So you would need I34IZ34 trains within trains to reach the magic c.
My mistake...
I kinda ignored the fact that each sepperate train was going at 500MPH....
Now it makes sence...
And yes.,..the laws of physics as we know them are bound to change at some point....
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Originally posted by 02GF74
Seems the rail fare is gonna put a dampener on this
Assuming this experiment could be carried, I am pretty sure there is something in the theory of relativity that means you cannot exceed C.
just like if you could travel in a ricket at C and shine a torch out of the front window.,
Seems a trip to google land is in order.
I may be some time.
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Originally posted by I love speed :-P
Relative to the speed of light if you turned the lights on a maglev doing 7000mph surly the light coming from the lights would be doing the speed of light plus 7000
'Relative to the speed of light if you turned the lights on a maglev doing 7000mph surly the light coming from the lights would be doing the
speed of light plus 7000'
Ah, but the laws of relativity tells us that light always travels at 186k mps relative to the observers position, so no!
quote:
Originally posted by 02GF74
Assuming this experiment could be carried, I am pretty sure there is something in the theory of relativity that means you cannot exceed C.
just like if you could travel in a ricket at C and shine a torch out of the front window.,
Seems a trip to google land is in order.
I may be some time.
"Relative to the speed of light if you turned the lights on a maglev doing 7000mph surly the light coming from the lights would be doing the
speed of light plus 7000 "
No, but the light would shift from the red end of the spectrum towards the blue.
This might cause a problem with signalling where a red stop light at the terminal might appear to be green 
When I get home I'm gonna mock up my own mini experiment.
I'll get a big wheel for an elephant, then a smaller one for a bufallo, then an even smaller one for a gazelle, right down to a teeny tiny one
for the humble flea and see how fast that bad boy goes!!
I was joking btw I wasnt being serious but if anyone wants some light reading on going faster than C see here
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faster-than-light
[Edited on 15/2/2008 by I love speed :-P]
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Originally posted by Phil.J
'Relative to the speed of light if you turned the lights on a maglev doing 7000mph surly the light coming from the lights would be doing the speed of light plus 7000'
Ah, but the laws of relativity tells us that light always travels at 186k mps relative to the observers position, so no!
There was once a time when it was thought that exceeding the speed of sound was impossible....
LOL!!!! Next you'll be telling us the earth is not flat
Each train would see the subsequent one running at a slightly slower time rate. This effect would increase nearer the speed of light till in the end
just before one gets there time stands still. Thus preventing that last watt of power pushing it to light speed. At the same time is mass would be
almost infinite so yet again the attempt is foiled.
This does not mean all is lost. Space it's self seems to be able to move and expand at much higher speeds. For example the universe is reckoned
to have jumped in size from smaller than an atom to larger than the Milky Way in a fraction of a second just after the big bang. What's more
quantum physic’s has shown through particle entailment that information can travel by some unknown means instantly to any point in space, this has
been proven experimentally. It has also been shown that space/time can be dragged around by rotating planets and even moved by the presence of high
energy light, opening up the possibly one day of space travel by space/time distortion, also more commonly know as warp drive.
It is always unadvisable to say things are impossible rather say, we don't know yet.
Nagh...Wouldnt want to argue with that old age truth...the world is flat...and always will be..
God dont you just love fridays!
physics is spelt without an apostrophe
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Originally posted by tegwin
Nagh...Wouldnt want to argue with that old age truth...the world is flat...and always will be..
God dont you just love fridays!
Like most things really...
Im pretty sure the aztecs and egyptians were more technologically advanced than we are in some ways
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Originally posted by iank
quote:
Originally posted by tegwin
Nagh...Wouldnt want to argue with that old age truth...the world is flat...and always will be..
God dont you just love fridays!
<personal nit>
The ancients never thought the earth was flat, navigation would have been impossible and someone would have noticed the horizon curves out at sea - in other words it's a bit bl**dy obvious we live on a big ball.
The whole notion that the ancients believed on a flat earth was invented in 1828 by Washington Irving's publication of The Life and Voyages of Christopher Columbus.
In other words the whole thing is a modern conceit.
I bet the guys steering the ships didn't believe any of that nonsense
quote:
Originally posted by I love speed :-P
I was joking btw
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faster-than-light
[Edited on 15/2/2008 by I love speed :-P]
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