Comments for Steven W. Booth

Comment on Super-secret by Mari Adkins

Mari Adkins — Sun, 27 Jun 2010 00:25:22 +0000

my last check was enough to pay two electricity bills. but i bought a new cellphone, got a piercing, and did some general good things for ME.

Comment on Forget the Downeaster ‘Alexa’ by Mari

Mari — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 00:12:29 +0000

that is brilliant!!

Comment on Faster Than Light Travel by Mari

Mari — Sat, 13 Mar 2010 02:28:21 +0000

it is possible to create pocket universes by bending the stress field completely around an object like a ship

Reminds me a bit of how hypserspace works in Babylon 5.

Comment on Faster Than Light Travel by Steven

Steven — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 19:34:12 +0000

Well then that just proves my point. If space can be sucked into a black hole at faster than c, then ripples in space-time certainly can propagate that fast.

Thanks for the heads-up, Michael!

Comment on Faster Than Light Travel by Mike Sperry

Mike Sperry — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 19:00:02 +0000

You won’t be plagiarizing/stealing (much). That’s a fairly well-known theory of space/time. In fact, I think it’s what Star Trek’s warp drive was based on.

Here’s an interesting thing I learned recently when reading Phil Plait’s “Death From The Skies!”: one of the (many) reasons you can’t escape from a black hole is that the black hole is sucking in space at a rate faster than the speed of light. So even if you had a ship capable of light speed travel, the *space* that it’s traveling through is moving faster than light, so the ship could never make any headway out of the black hole.
Since you teach math, I’ll give you a classic math problem analogy: It’s like if you were on a train heading north at 60 mph, but you were running down the aisle toward the back of the train. Sure, you’d feel like you were running South at 13 mph (relative to the train), but you’d still be moving North at 47 mph!