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OK, so I'm thinking...If a gun if fired in outer space, would it travel forever? and since there is no friction slowing it down, would it utterly fly through most metals? Just curious.

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>If a gun
>if fired in outer space,
>would it travel forever? and
>since there is no friction
>slowing it down, would it
>utterly fly through most metals?
>Just curious.

Umm, I'm not sure what you mean, but if it hits something it would slow down as it would do on earth.

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>Before reading on, just remember that
>there are no stupid questions...just
>stupid people.
>
>OK, so I'm thinking...If a gun
>if fired in outer space,
>would it travel forever? and
>since there is no friction
>slowing it down, would it
>utterly fly through most metals?
>Just curious.

No, or at least not anymore than it would normally. The bullet would behave almost exactly like a bullet on Earth, only with no gravity to pull it down to earth. Bullets aren't slowed down very much by air friction. The bullet will fall to earth or hit something before it has slowed down noticably from travelling through the air.

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RE: my friend says

sorry about that he pressed 'post' before i could do anything

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i gotta a question a bit like urs :

if youv'e gotta a car in space, and it's travelling at the speed of light, and you turn the headlights on, would you see the light coming from them, then if you accellerated what would happen??? I've asked all my science teachers and none of really know the answer!!!
 
RE: my friend says

Hmmmm, would the gunpowder even combust properly without the oxygen?

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The Only thing that travels faster than then speed of light is Darkness. Cause wherever light goes, darkness is there first, waiting for it.

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Darkness does not travel at any speed.
Darkness is decribed as a lack of light, therefore darkness in itself does not exist. Think about it when you enter your house at night and it`s dark, do you remove darkness or do you add light?
The human mind need to name what wich is not ( darkness, cold ...) Yes it's easier in a conversation to talk about cold rather than the lack of heat, but here again cold does not exist, it is a non-precense of heat. When you go outside and you feel the cold, it's not the cold that is getting inside your body it's the heat from your body that is escaping. Here again to refrigirate something you do not add cold you remove heat(from the air that you blow inside the fridge).

As for the car travelling at the speed of light, No one has the answer because no one can attempt the experiment. In theory (mine) the headlight you be on but you would not be able to see it because you are traveling at the same speed. It`s like if you fire a pistol and at the same time you propell the pistoll at the same speed as the bullet, the bullet will never get out of the cannon, therefore you fired but no bullet came out so it gives the impression(from a perspective) that you did not fire the pistol. However the person standing in the trajectory of the pistol will know it all too soon that you did fire that pistol.

For the pistol in outer space, the bullet would go on till it came close enough to a space body that would alter it`s trajectory and finaly make the bullet impact somthing. So in order to make travel pretty far you would first need to go ouside our solar system (because pretty little escape our gravity) and then fire on a pre-calculated trajectory that would not come close enough to any stellar mass to alter the "flight" of the bullet and yes it could go on forever.

Magic recipe : No friction, No gravity.


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>Magic recipe : No friction, No gravity.

I have to correct you on that one (well, I don't exactly have to, but it sounds better than "I correct you").

There is friction in space, only it is miniscule. The size of a matchbox contains approximately 10 atoms, and in a space the size of an average cathedral you'll also find a dust-particle (or grain of sand, for all I care)

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God, has our society become so logical that a joke can't be recognized as one?

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Actually i always tought that this was a forum for discussion and so i that order or mind i answered your question(or whomever question it was).
No this topic is not a joke, there are many theories that talk about those possibility (ant-time, anti-space, anti-light) yet you may think that this question does not have an answer, but we are in a society that has a thirst for knowledge. Every question must go answered. For every question that we ask a dozen thery might evolve, and it's a good thing. It keeps us thinking, yes that thing on top of our head is used not just to remember the secret keyword for invicibility in Doom, it's also used to think.

I may be dull for trying to find answers where there are none to be found but hey what the hell, i'm having fun.

So i will close with a joke

Q: what is the difference betweeen a vacuum cleaner and a Harley?

A: Placement of the dirtbag.


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RE: my friend says

>Hmmmm, would the gunpowder even combust
>properly without the oxygen?

Bullets (inside their cases): yes. Bullets include their own oxygenators for combustion. However you could not light a match on fire in outer space, nor keep a lit match alight without a source of oxygen in outer space.

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>There is friction in space, only
>it is miniscule. The size
>of a matchbox contains approximately
>10 atoms, and in a
>space the size of an
>average cathedral you'll also find
>a dust-particle (or grain of
>sand, for all I care)

Size of an average "cathedral?" I'm sure glad you're using standardized units for this... :)

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Another odd question...

Scientists say that you cannot travel faster than the speed of light. However since location and speed are relative, what happens if someone launches a particle at, say, 75% of the speed of light towards you, and you also launch a particle at 75% of the speed of light towards him? Technically if you're on the first particle, the other particle is travelling 150% of the speed of light towards you right?

Does this mean that motion is not relative? Or does this mean that the speed of light is only finite if you produce it?

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RE: Another odd question...

Expanation #1

Yes in this case light might feel like it's traveling at 150% the speed of light, but it SEEMS like it is. It's NOT traveling at some 449 688 687 m per second square, it just looks like it is. It's a perception thing ; it's relative to where you are standing.
From my perspective my particle is going away at 224 844 343 Meter pers second square (we are going to assume that if we can lauch particle at 75% the speed of light we can also do it in a vacuum :D ).
From my friend's perspective, my particle is coming at him at 75% SOL (speed of light).
If i was standing next to the particle going at the same speed it would look like we are not moving at all, and then Vrooom a particle would pass us by at what would seem like 150% SOL.

So yes i would say that motion is relative.
moreon light speed at http://csep10.phys.utk.edu/guidry/violence/lightspeed.html

Explanation #2

The speed of light is independent of the motion of the observer.
The speed of light does not vary with time or place.

Ok this is heavy stuff so i'll try to resume it :
go to http://math.ucr.edu/home/baez/physics/speed_of_light.html and check it out.

Weird fact

A team of scientist almost a year ago slowed down light to about 38 miles an hour. They say i does not violate any of Einstein's theory of relativity becose that theory tells only about a top speed and not the possibility of a lower limit
http://www.news.harvard.edu/science/current_stories/18.Feb.99/light.html

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RE: Another odd question...

>The speed of light is independent
>of the motion of the
>observer.
>The speed of light does not
>vary with time or place.

Ah, but that's what most physics teachers say, but how do they define no movement at all, or the origin? Is this to say that you *can* go faster than the speed of light?

Scientists say that light is but a ripple in the pond of the electromagnetic medium everything exists in, but unlike a pond of water, we can travel with the wave, not just shift the medium. And what happens when we encounter another "wave" in the opposite direction?

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RE: my friend says

>Bullets (inside their cases): yes. Bullets include their own oxygenators for combustion.

Hm, I didn't know that...

>However you could not light a match on fire in outer space,

Didn't matches also produce their own oxygen ?

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