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The space telegraph conjecture

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The space telegraph conjecture

or proof that length contraction doesn't occur.

from JoeUser Forums

We have a space outpost 1 light year from earth that we want

to send a message to in much less than a year.

We have a collection of satellites in large orbit around earth

and a collection of satellites in large orbit around the outpost.

Each satellite will have a large mirror for collecting, focusing and reflecting

our transmissions. Each satellite will travel at 99% the speed of light.

When we transmit our message from earth we will utilize a satellite near earth

and a satellite near the outpost that are traveling toward each other. 

Because the satellites are moving toward each other at almost the speed

of light the distance between the satellites will be contracted (length contraction).

The message will only have a short trip between the satellites. This will allow

a message travel time of much less than a year from earth to the outpost.

We are simply reflecting a message through an alternate reality.

 

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Reply #26 from JoeUser Forums Top

Here it is in a nut shell:

Lets say you are receiving some radio signal with you equipment.

You read the frequency and the wave length.

If you increase your speed toward the signal the frequency will increase

and the wave length will decrease so that any time you multiply

the frequency times the wave length you will get the speed of light.

186000 miles per second in a vacuum.

The frequency change makes logical sense the wave length change is magic.

Welcome to the illusion.

We are looking for the how and why but all we get is a riddle, wrapped in a mystery, inside an enigma.

 

Reply #27 from WinCustomize Forums Top

Quoting Iben, reply 27

The frequency change makes logical sense the wave length change is magic.

Welcome to the illusion.

One and the same thing.  Sometimes I think you post just to hear yourself posting...;p

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Reply #28 from Stardock.net Forums Top

Yeah I am not sure what the point is of this thread. It'd be better suited to a personal blog.

Reply #29 from JoeUser Forums Top

Quoting SchismNavigator, reply 29

Yeah I am not sure what the point is of this thread. It'd be better suited to a personal blog.

You mean a personal blog like this, View.

Reply #30 from JoeUser Forums Top

Update:

New movie outline based on a theoretical reality:

An unmanned space ship has been tested for very short times

approaching half the speed of light. Now it will be tested

with a human crew and they will push on to higher speeds.

Before the test the captain of the crew bumps into a physicist

at a bar on the east coast of the US who tries to warn him of what

might happen on the test flight.

Next scene: 

The captain and crew are in the ship in space and everything is going

good they are heading back toward the inner solar system and earth.

All the tests went great and they are traveling very near the speed of light.

As they fly by the inner solar system their instrumentation read out

tells them that earth is 900,000 miles from the sun. They observe that the earth

doesn't look normal. The crew decelerates the ship and lands on earth.

They find that there is no atmosphere or water and the earth is dead.

The crew converts their date and time back to earth time on the east coast of the US,

12:00 noon March 15, 3042. They realize they can't go home.

Next scene:

The physicist that tried to warn the captain is standing next to a hotdog stand somewhere

on the east coast of the US. It is a beautiful day. A clock on a nearby building

says 12 noon. He is reading the news on his phone. The date is March 15, 3042.

The head line reads "New ship returns crew healthy".

While eating his hotdog he realizes the crew that left are not the clones that returned.

 

Reply #31 from Stardock.net Forums Top

Quoting Iben, reply 29


Quoting SchismNavigator,
reply 29

Yeah I am not sure what the point is of this thread. It'd be better suited to a personal blog.



You mean a personal blog like this, View.

Weird, this shouldn't be showing up in the Stardock.net forums then.