This got me to thinking, what actually happened there. I'm not talking about how they did it, but how it was in two places at once. So here's my idea. It wasn't really in two places at once. No where in nature (to my knowledge) does this occure naturally (hah, aren't I redundant ), so our eyes, and minds even aren't built to register something traveling faster then light, or something like that.

Now any light being emitted from it must travel slower then it. So it would appear to reach it's destination before it had left, because the light from where it had started was still in the process of reaching our eyes, and registering in our brains after it had arrived, and when it arrived, that to had to register in our eyes and brains, so it appeared to be in two places at once, but in reality it actually wasn't.

This is kind of hard to prove though. Any instruments that we have to observe still rely on the laws of physics, and as such cannot observe faster then light. So again, the light from the start would still be registering after it had arrived at it's destination.

For a moment I had thought about touch. Would a blind-person be able to tell? After a little bit of pondering, I think the answer is no. Our senses, and brain even, still rely on the laws of physics. Information in our body is transfered through neurons. These neurons transfer the information via electric signals or something (not 100% sure). While this is amazingly fast, it's still not faster, or even as fast as light, so no, it would not register.

It's impossible to prove though, but the best analogy I can think of is in cartoons, when someone bolts off and a dust cloud is left in the charactor's image. It looks like the char. is there, but the char. has actually left.

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Needless to say, this shit goes way over my head.

Now, my question is, they accelerated a particle of light?! I thought that light has not truely been classified as a particle or energy since it exhibits properties of both...either way, light faster than the speed of light??

Another thing is warp fields...bending space to bring too points closer together to make travel that much faster...think of this: If the Enterprise enters warp, it folds space one way, if a Romulan Warbird goes into warp it folds space another way...with ships going everywhere folding space, whouldn't the Star Trek universe be nothing than similar to a piece of oragami

Actually, you could probably tell by touch because all that remains of the particle at it's starting point is basically nothing more than an after image. Kind of like when some one takes a picture of you using the flash on the camera, and you get an after image of the flash of light in your eyes. Remember, the particle still has moved, physically it's not at the starting point. I would think that while our eyes can't register the change right away, because physicall it has moved, we coul feel it.

I wonder how close I am from the actual...

Anyways, I believe that the particle can be properly measured.

Think of this. Measure the particle from a relatively far distance so that all of the information being received is constant. Lets say you observe the particle moving from 100 meters away, the relative change in the distance as it moves perpendictular to you is very small probably less that .1 meter. Think of an isocelese triangle as you move the 3rd point farther and farther from the first 2 the distance to center of the line connecting them is prettywell constant and becomes a constant as your distance away from the two points approaches infinity.

A picture would explain it well if you don't understand it

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O ~ I calculated mine... 18.5 m/s = 56.25 fp/s

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18ms? You're an LBP. 56fps? Gotta be a GeForce2

A teacher at my school thinks he can build a time machine with the equipment in the science storeroom.

The only other thing I can think of is that maybe it was a different particle at the second point. Perhaps all that really happened was that a second particle that was in synch with the first particle appeared. What was true for one was true for the other. Maybe all that was observed was the fact that for every particle of matter or what not, there is another particle that is a twin for it.
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It is like the optical illusion...

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...or sumthin'

oh and Snag, it's temporal not temperal

If you were to travel back in time, even one day, you'd be out in space when you arrive, because the earth wouldn't be where it was, due to the orbit of the earth, the movement of the solarsystem throughout the galaxy, and even the movement of the galaxy. It's a very big oversight

BTW, I think you mean the earth doesn't stay in the same place.

and AW, who gives a shit I got my message across lol