breaking the speed of light article on howstuffworks.com

Have you been following the Mars rover expeditions? NASA set two landers down on the face of a planet 6+ billion miles away, within 100 yards of the target points! That's very impressive. I hear they're now going to slam an 800-pound copper chunk into a comet at a speed delta of 22,000 miles/hr. The megaton-equivalent energy release is said to create "a large crater about the size of the Rose Bowl Stadium (in Pasadena, California)," says Donald Yeomans of JPL. This mission is to see what is under the comet's surface by vaporizing some of it. Read more at:

It's easy to make something look like it is travelling faster than C, if both are delayed equally, then one is delayed a little less.

Sure, more circuits may fail, but without being able to test any circuits the ones that work aren't of much use either. There is a huge premium for test in complicated designs (aren't they all these days?).

Over on CSIPHC I tell people I'm 34. Most understand quite well. ;-)

In article , Robert Baer wrote: [...]

It is very common for circuits to have unequal slew rates and other non-linear characteristics that make matter a great deal which way an edge is going. Take a look at the specs of a 7400.

In article , keith wrote: [...]

There is sort of a funny thing about boundary scan. To have boundary scan on a board, you have to add more circuits that may fail. The fact that IBM seems to be coming up with a way to reduce the total is most likely a good thing in the long run.

In article , John Woodgate wrote: [...]

The center is the earth and everything else is running away because we have cosmic BO.

But seriously: On the large scale the universe is expanding in a uniform manner. Small details like the formation of black holes make the expansion have a texture to it. Some of this texture may be left over information from a much earlier time. In this earlier time, matter that is beyond the observable universe could have left its foot prints. From this we may be able to infer things about stuff we will never see.

In article , Jim Thompson wrote: [...]

It will vary depending on the street corner but I predict the averages will be:

I read in sci.electronics.design that ~~SciGirl~~ wrote (in ) about 'breaking the speed of light article on howstuffworks.com', on Sun, 6 Feb 2005:

Greek, not Latin, but correct.

I read in sci.electronics.design that ~~SciGirl~~ wrote (in ) about 'breaking the speed of light article on howstuffworks.com', on Sun, 6 Feb 2005:

In base 37? (;-)

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Kinetic is not the only type of energy. Conservation of Energy just says you can't create it or destroy it, but you can change it.

Hmm. Now the qusetion is; Are you being polite now?

Who cares, the Pats won! ...again.

Again you've responded without including the correct context for the rest of us. The way the treading runs, it looks like you are resonding to me, but I don;t see how you could be as my posting did not actually question your age.

So, use a mirror to reflect the light back to it's source, then put the transmitter and receiver side by side.

But, the delay is always positive...

Crudely stated, the three laws of thermodynamics are:

I've mever seen a case where it isn't in fact. I have seen cases where the misuse of measuring equipment can make what looks like negitive delays.

Yes this is very much the sort of thing that is done. You will have to know exactly how far it is the mirror. Knowing the distance is easiest if you range to it with a laser beam. This turns this version into something more like the interferance version.