Blazing Speed: The Fastest Stuff In The Universe

Unfallversicherung writes "'If you're light, it's fairly easy to travel at your own speed -- that is to say 186,282 miles per second or 299,800 kilometers per second. But if you are matter, then it's another matter altogether.' Astronomers are now measuring matter that moves at 99.9 percent of light-speed. Jupiter-sized blobs of hot gas embedded in streams of material ejected from hyperactive galaxies known as blazars."

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But is it fast enough...

[ravind]

To get first post? ...probably not :(

Futurama Quote

[Anonymous Coward]

Thats impossible nothing can go faster than the speed of light.
Of Course Not! Thats why scientists increased the speed of light in 2208.

Re:Futurama Quote

[michaeldot]

universal constants change at the speed of light.

Or at the whim of Q.

Become your own grandpa

[Josh Booth]

From TFA: "For us, the speed limit makes strange sense: Go faster than light, and you could return before you've left, become your own grandpa, or other perform other leaps of cosmic logic."

Someone's been watching too much Futurama.

Re:Become your own grandpa

[Anonymous Coward]

Obligitory Futurama quotes:

Professor: As long as history doesn't care that Fry is his own grandfather, then everything is back to normal.

Fry: "But, but, won't that change history?"
Professor: "Oooh... A lesson in not changing history from Mr. I'm-my-own-grandpa! Let's get the hell out of here already. Screw history!"

Re:Not so fast

[fm6]

It's all a matter of frame of reference. And of course if yo pick the right frame of reference, the universe is just a few light-minutes wide and about 6000 years old.

Blazar detection

[otter42]

Dude, screw the asteroid detection. One of those things will only take out most of the world's costal area.

Whereas one of those blazar things could take out the whole solar system. Imagine the fireworks there, as a mass the size of Jupiter smacks into the sun.

Gentlemen... we cannot allow... a blazar detection gap!

MS worms

[Skiron]

Have they comparable data on how fast an Outlook user clicks on [OK] to launch an attachment? That must be as fast as the speed of light, at least!

Blazars are not the fastest thing in the universe

[stratjakt]

My buddy had a blazar and that piece of shit would be lucky to do 0 to 60 in 10 minutes.

AH HA get it? chevye blazar kekekekekeke kthxbye

"If you're light"

[EEBaum]

"If you're light, it's easy to travel..."

Did anyone else read this and think, "Well, I'm not overweight... so I can go really fast?"

Metric system rules

[faramir_fr]

"If you're light, it's fairly easy to travel at your own speed -- that is to say 186,282 miles per second or 299,800 kilometers per second."

Light is faster with the metric system... :)

Doh!

Re:Mindbender question about lightspeed.

[NoMoreNicksLeft]

God had to lower it to 186,000 miles per hour, or lose out on quadrillions of dollars worth of highway funds from congress. There are all sorts of studies proving that it conserves entropy or saves lives, but they're all bunk.

... sounds like someone I used to work for

[JMZorko]

"Jupiter-sized blobs of hot gas embedded in streams of material ejected ..."

... the resemblance is uncanny :-)

Regards,

John

Re:Uhm..

[ikkonoishi]

Have you ever been surfing along on the internet, minding your own business, and then suddenly *BAM* goatse.cx/hello.jpg.

That would be about the same sensation.

Introduces i?

[uberdave]

Faster than light travel simply introduces i...

Introduces i? You must be imagining things.

Re: Unilectron

[iamlucky13]

From my limited experience being around people using THC to mimic the natural effect I would conjecture that it does so without the learning of new things with global ramifications. I vote for not sharing out electron with those people.