Fun fact of the day!

[Zeus Kabob]

Since I know you've been waiting for this all your lives, I have a fun fact for you.

PSR J1748-2446ad is a neutron star with twice the mass of the sun, a radius of 16 km, and a rotational speed of 716 revolutions per second.

There are a couple of ways to think about this. One is to compare it to Earth's rotational speed (61,862,400 times as fast), but that's sort of hard to put into perspective. Another would be to measure the speed of its equator. At a radius of 16 km, with a rotational speed of 716 Hz, we get that the outer edge is moving at 72,000,000 m/s, or 162,000,000 mi/hr, or 24% the speed of light. This is really, really fast.

Hope you enjoyed the fun fact of the day! I may post more, as I've got tons of random information like this that I could dredge up from the bottom recesses of my mind.

[jayjaycaps]

hey, that means only 76% left until time travel!

[Zeus Kabob]

XD

[jayjaycaps]

but wait, if time travel is possible, why haven't future us's come back in time to tell us?

[Zeus Kabob]

It's because time travel is impossible/impractical.

[BlueLight]

It's because time travel is impossible/impractical.

don't be stupid. Time travel isn't impossible and it's practical. In fact i have one in my sock room.
The reason why we don't use them is because the Time machine is such a great book.

[TheDaughterOfHades14]

but wait, if time travel is possible, why haven't future us's come back in time to tell us?

They haven't because it would cause a time paradox. You can not interact with the past. Let alone talk to your self from the past.

[Zeus Kabob]

According to Douglas Adams, "time paradoxes are like scar tissue".

By impractical, I mean the limit as v approaches c of 1/sqrt(1-(v^2)/(c^2)) is infinite. That's not a small amount of energy.

[BlueLight]

Didn't you watch that fringe episode? You just keep killing people on the same goddamn train.

[IrrelevantComment]

Fun fact: a matchbox sized neutron star would weigh a few billion tonnes.

[TheDaughterOfHades14]

Random Fun Facts:
Did you know in 1994 Los Angeles police arrested a man for dressing as the Grim Reaper, comepleted with a scythe, standing outside of the windows of old people's homes and staring in?

Did you know you can be at risk for throat cancer if you have a throat or a mouth?!

Did you know the Alphabet song, Twinkle twinkle little star, and Ba Ba Black Sheep all have the same tune?

Did you know that if you hold a candle and say your lover's name in a mirror you'll look retarded?

Did you know in May of 2007 Comcast aired porn on the Disney channel by mistake (instead of Handy Manny)?

Did you know I'm currently naked under these clothes?

[Thee Pie Man]

Random theory, if you go back into the "past" it wouldn't change anything for the people living in the future you came from because that future would be apart of another line of events that did happen, all you'd be doing is going back, changing something so people in another line of time would have better lives/ be richer, etc. I have also thought about it and I think you'd have to have built it in the time period you want to go back to, otherwise how can it exist in the other time? Which brings me to my next thing you'd have to exist in the other time aka you would be as young as you were at that point of time. O:

I knew you were naked under those clothes Daughter of Hades. I just didn't want to say anything in front of you <3

[GoRepeat]

Random theory, if you go back into the "past" it wouldn't change anything for the people living in the future you came from because that future would be apart of another line of events that did happen, all you'd be doing is going back, changing something so people in another line of time would have better lives/ be richer, etc. I have also thought about it and I think you'd have to have built it in the time period you want to go back to, otherwise how can it exist in the other time? Which brings me to my next thing you'd have to exist in the other time aka you would be as young as you were at that point of time. O:

You are also assuming there isn't a natural order to the universe. Who is to say that even if you did go back in time, there would be no major impact on the time line because the universe is self correcting. While it is true that a butterfly flapping its wings can cause an earthquake in Russia, there are also numerous amounts of steps in that chain that can be corrected to ensure the earthquake will occur even if you go back in time and squash the butterfly!

[Mr D]

About traveling to the past - did you ever hear about this Stephen Hawking guy?

Also fun fact: Scientist artificialy created temperature 250,000 times more scorching than our Sun.
Oh yea our scientist are hotter than sun.

[jayjaycaps]

Yea sure, but ever heard of dark matter? Our scientists nearly destroyed the entire universe by goddamned looking at it.

[Mr D]

Yea sure, but ever heard of dark matter? Our scientists nearly destroyed the entire universe by goddamned looking at it.

Well you cant exactly "look" at it since it does not really emit or absorb light. But I do not know how its existance has anything to do with the realistic posibility of timetravel into the past {or was it just ment to be fun fact?}.

[jayjaycaps]

Fun fact. Probably should have worded it better, but oh well.

But by looking at it, I literally meant looking at it. When you observe really, really, REALLY small things (like dark matter) it changes it in some way. Dark matter has a nasty habit of vaporizing everything near it when it gets observed. Doesn't happen all the time, but when it does SHIT GETS REAL. And some scientist fellas looked at it.

[Thee Pie Man]

Random theory, if you go back into the "past" it wouldn't change anything for the people living in the future you came from because that future would be apart of another line of events that did happen, all you'd be doing is going back, changing something so people in another line of time would have better lives/ be richer, etc. I have also thought about it and I think you'd have to have built it in the time period you want to go back to, otherwise how can it exist in the other time? Which brings me to my next thing you'd have to exist in the other time aka you would be as young as you were at that point of time. O:

You are also assuming there isn't a natural order to the universe. Who is to say that even if you did go back in time, there would be no major impact on the time line because the universe is self correcting. While it is true that a butterfly flapping its wings can cause an earthquake in Russia, there are also numerous amounts of steps in that chain that can be corrected to ensure the earthquake will occur even if you go back in time and squash the butterfly!

I believe in Darma in a way, so I feel there is a natural order.

What I am saying is that what happened already happened in the timeline we are apart of, regardless it's there because if not then we would have seen the change already and therefore have already had changes. Some people claim this to be the work of deja vu as well. Seeing something in one instance for what it was then it changing to the next instance. I have had Deja vu happen many times in my short life, sometimes for the better or worse yet I technically "see" no change. The fact is that changing something for yourself before would show up if it was to show up. If it's not showing up and someone did crack time then obviously there is a way to make branches in time line...Or the person exploded XD

Example:
Squish butterfly that causes earthquake = Timeline having no earthquake - Chaotic cycles that could cause even worse disasters or the latter
Squish Butterfly that causes earthquake = Nothing different happens - For natural order keeps it going
Put it in a jar and release it = Timeline has no earthquake - Chaotic cycles that could cause even worse disasters
Put it in a jar and release it = Nothing different happens. - For natural order keeps it going


If we know for certain that the butterfly actually causes the earthquake then stop it we don't get an earthquake unless something natural orderly about the universe says fuck you, earthquake happens one way or another for someone else had the same idea and went back and squished all the butterflies which caused a pollination crises and killed everything for that butterfly was the key in tons of events yet to come, so much happened that the man killed himself in the past yet still existed for the order of things he's still there, he still exists in that time, otherwise he would have vanished the moment his life ended then. However if we do not know that the butterfly would have caused this event, the idea of the universe having an order that can move even with the Chaotic throw of a time machine trying to alter things seems like a counter argument if I do say so myself because I could easily say.

Well uh..If there is a natural prevalent force of the universe putting order then even if we changed the past it wouldn't change the future we came from because the fact is that it is in order when the person goes back to change things, the person probably even set's to motion events in the future he wouldn't even realize. Even if we wanted to change the past we could not because either A. It's already been tried, B it's how everything got to be now, or C it's just illogical to try to change things that were meant to be.
^ If there is a nature order of course.

Otherwise I say fuck it, I am going back and killing hitler because I hate his actions, that or I am taking him, putting him somewhere in the mountains with paints and futuristic art books and tell him if he shows anyone them he'd explodify. :L

Also yes I have heard of Stephen Hawkings.

@JayJay, "Then where do the stories come from I wonder?"

[Mr D]

Really? Besouse as far as I know Dark Matter is compleatly unopservable by any technology we have right now (and is everywhere). Thus the name Dark matter or dark energy. The way the existance of dark matter was proven was becouse of its gravity force. When you look at the mass of the planets,sun and stars and mathematicaly count their gravitation pull force, than there is no way they could circle in the orbit the way they do (would just fly off). Thus some sort of energy that exists betwene those objects must create the gravitation pull necesary for them to stay in orbit as we know it. This energy was called dark energy/matter becouse as I said we have yet to observe it BUT it must exist based on the mathematical calculations.

[Thee Pie Man]

Really? Besouse as far as I know Dark Matter is compleatly unopservable by any technology we have right now (and is everywhere). Thus the name Dark matter or dark energy. The way the existance of dark matter was proven was becouse of its gravity force. When you look at the mass of the planets,sun and stars than and mathematicaly count their gravitation pull force than there is no way they could circle in that orbit the way they do (would just fly off). Thus some sort of energy that exists betwene those objects must create the gravitation pull necesary for them to stay in orbit as we know it. This energy was called dark energy/matter becouse as I said we have yet to observe it BUT it must exist based on the mathematical calculations.

So let's say we get a giant Microscopic light beam and shoot some of these particles into oblivion, would that cause our planet to do the hula and move into the sun? O.e