Bizzare - and if you believe it, most think you are a crackpot

TraderTactics · Jun 26, 2010

Quote from deanrumble:

Considering that it is proven that time and space are related.

For our purposes this means (as you all probably know) the closer one gets to the speed of light, the further in the future one gets, relatively speaking.
Albert Einstein showed back in his day with his special theory of relativity, time slows down for objects moving close to the speed of light, at least from the viewpoint of a stationary observer. You want to visit the earth 1,000 years from now? Just travel to a star 500 light-years away and return, going both ways at 99.995% the speed of light. When you return, the earth will be 1,000 years older, but you'll have aged only 10 years. Of course traveling that fast is currently impossible BUT this theory is proven and to give a realistic example you could use astronaut Story Musgrave, who helped repair the Hubble Space Telescope, spent 53.4 days in orbit. He is thus more than a millisecond younger than he would have been if he had stayed home. The effect is small, because he traveled very slowly relative to the speed of light, but it's real.

Now consider that relative to the Earth we are currently sitting still (at least I am right now in front of my computer) BUT if you change the frame of reference and consider that the Earth rotates once every 23 hours, 56 minutes and 4.09053 seconds, called the sidereal period, and its circumference is roughly 40,075 kilometers. Thus, the surface of the earth at the equator moves at a speed of 460 meters per second--or roughly 1,000 miles per hour.

The earth is moving about our sun in a very nearly circular orbit. It covers this route at a speed of nearly 30 kilometers per second, or 67,000 miles per hour. In addition, our solar system--Earth and all--whirls around the center of our galaxy at some 220 kilometers per second, or 490,000 miles per hour. As we consider increasingly large size scales, the speeds involved become absolutely huge!

The galaxies in our neighborhood are also rushing at a speed of nearly 1,000 kilometers per second towards a structure called the Great Attractor, a region of space roughly 150 million light-years (one light year is about six trillion miles) away from us. This Great Attractor, having a mass 100 quadrillion times greater than our sun and span of 500 million light-years, is made of both the visible matter that we can see along with the so-called dark matter that we cannot see.

I could start getting into quantum physics but I just realized that I'm getting a little long-winded here so to get to the point.......this is a complex world that we know very little about....so anything is possible.
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This is very interesting. Thank you for sharing. As Niels Bohr said, "Anyone who is not shocked by quantum theory has not understood it.

nitro · Nov 17, 2010

Required reading for anyone interested in the topic of this thread also is:

http://www.elitetrader.com/vb/showthread.php?threadid=210588

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Bizzare - and if you believe it, most think you are a crackpot

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