Drunken Time travel
I was having a bizzare drunken conversation with my cousin about einsteins theory of relativity, in that as one accelerates, ones perception of time is altered to the effect that the faster one moves, the slower time is, relevent to the moving object. We decided to prove this by tying a clock to a piece of string, and swinging it round fast enough to cause a delay compared to another clock. Fortunately we didn't break anything, and managed to prove the theory, as the clock was cleary behind the control one.

Took us half an hour to find the battery again

(true story!)
(Virulent, Thu 24 Jul 2008, 18:42, 7 replies)

Haha
Brilliant - this would make an amazing thesis.

*click*
(Pavlov's Frog figures no-one really reads sigs anyway, Thu 24 Jul 2008, 18:48, closed)

You jest
but NASA did that with atomic clocks and jumbo jets. They slowed down.

Mind you Einstein copied it from that warlock Newton.

F=MA
and
E=MC²
is the same thing since acceleration = velocity squared.
( buffet_the_appetite_slayer ٩(●̮̃•)۶ jacked in to the ICE on, Thu 24 Jul 2008, 18:57, closed)

Class!
I can just picture Einstein trying something similar...
(salty_sea_dog Pillaging since 1886. Oh, and "Yahaarrrr" as well., Thu 24 Jul 2008, 18:57, closed)

Newton
did it with lemon juice, ammonia and baking soda.
( buffet_the_appetite_slayer ٩(●̮̃•)۶ jacked in to the ICE on, Thu 24 Jul 2008, 19:02, closed)

Er, wait a minute
F=MA
and
E=MC2
is the same thing since acceleration = velocity squared.

(with all due respect) Is it buggery. Acceleration is the first derivative of velocity with respect to time. And energy is not the same thing as force.

That said, Einstein's theory of special relativity can pretty much be worked out by using Newtonian dynamics, a bit of algebra, and the clever bit, which is the assumption that the velocity of light in vacuo is constant in any inertial reference frame.
( K2k6 has a proper job these days, Thu 24 Jul 2008, 19:09, closed)

^
...What k2K6 said.
(powervator and NONE SHALL PASS, Thu 24 Jul 2008, 19:28, closed)

haha
Brilliant. I laughed and spat tea at my boss who then made me read the story and he laughed. So laughs all round!
( TGB checking Off Topic is still shit at, Tue 29 Jul 2008, 12:02, closed)