Lets go deep!

[WWJD]

That was the abreviated version of this question. The full question I'd like to pose to any of you deep thinkers or deep thinker wannabees, and even if you don't think much at all...

what would YOU suspect could be filling all the vastness of outer space?

Please avoid the REAL OBVIOUS stuff like: planets, suns, galaxies, asteroids, dust, various gas clouds, satelites and space vehicle parts, just let your mind go and see what you believe COULD be in all that empty space. I am talking about the so called "empty" regions of space, not the places where you see stuff.

I am purposely not putting any boundries or limits on the answer. Just say what ever you want and help me fill in the blank.... so to speak... man that was a good! pun was total accident.

All answers and opions request, respected, appriciated of course

 

[Devil Dog]

Well if God rides a Busa.......there is at least a Busa, some roads, a gas station....

I'm definately not a thinker. Sorry.

 

[pure_ego]

uh.. more vacuum?

and probably same kinda of vacuum found 1 mile outside our own atmosphere.. as you'd find 100,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000.03 billion light years away.

 

[HT_USMC]

It hurts... make the bad man go away!

 

[VaBusa]

...GOOGLE SAYS...

"Space is not made of anything, space-time, if you like, provides the coordinate system in which "events" are occuring. When we describe a particle, for example, we must say where and when this particle is located, we therefore must give its space-time coordinates."

I personally subscribe to the theory that there's some Cheez Wiz mixed in there somewhere...

 

[kod3001]

Haven't a clue what it could be. Many miles of nothing.

I find space amazing, and too much to comprehend. I am fascinated by the idea of black holes (not jokes please), the speed of light and the fact when we look at the stars we are seeing things that happened 30+ years ago.

Therefore, if we could travel faster than the speed of light, could we travel in time?

Another question to go along with yours, and to suggest that there is nothing in space (aside from the obvious). We know that aircraft require air to get lift, and in order for jets to provide thrust, they need to be pushing against something.

When you take that air away, how is it done? how do rockets when they go into space maintain or control thrust. Is it that they push out their own oxygen along with ignited rocket fuel etc to push themselves along?

 

[frisbee]

 

[VaBusa]

Another question to go along with yours, and to suggest that there is nothing in space (aside from the obvious).  We know that aircraft require air to get lift, and in order for jets to provide thrust, they need to be pushing against something.

When you take that air away, how is it done?  how do rockets when they go into space maintain or control thrust.  Is it that they push out their own oxygen along with ignited rocket fuel etc to push themselves along?

The movement of rockets has to do with Newton's third law, which says that for every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction. Rockets work by releasing matter backwards into space. This provides thrust, which moves the rocket forward. It's kind of like blowing up a balloon, then letting it go to fly around the room.

 

[frisbee]

I knew it !!! She does DYE her hair !!

 

[VaBusa]

I knew it !!! She does DYE her hair !!

Hey, I've NEVER kept that a secret...

 

[frisbee]

Yeah, but you never told anyone that you dye it red then dye it blond then dye it back to brunette then dye it back to blond so nobody can tell!

 

[frisbee]

My heads starting to hurt!

 

[VaBusa]

My heads starting to hurt!

...it should...a head like that...kind of like the vastness of space...

...too keep on topic here...

So, about space?!

WWJD, what is your theory?

 

[frisbee]

 

[Gunnybusa]

uh.. more vacuum?

and probably same kinda of vacuum found 1 mile outside our own atmosphere..  as you'd find 100,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000.03 billion light years away.

Wasnt VB talking about a vacuum at one time? So SHE is the reason for all the emptiness of space. There you go WWJD it's VB's fault AGIAN  

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[kod3001]

I'm gonna shutup now

 

[HT_USMC]

Haven't a clue what it could be. Many miles of nothing.

I find space amazing, and too much to comprehend. I am fascinated by the idea of black holes (not jokes please), the speed of light and the fact when we look at the stars we are seeing things that happened 30+ years ago.

Therefore, if we could travel faster than the speed of light, could we travel in time?

Time travel is not the same as travelling at the speed of light or greater.

We'll use the Sun as an example (and remove the possibility of you burning up in a ball of fire). What we see on Earth is 8 minutes delayed due to the speed of light. So if you set out for the Sun at the speed of light or greater... all that would happen is you would have an arc'd course to the Sun. You would have to change directions your entire flight because as you approached the sun you would notice that it has moved forward much faster than normal. So when you set out the Sun is actually 8 minutes ahead of where your eye sees it. Half way to the Sun would put it 4 minutes ahead of where you SEE it and probably 10+ minutes ahead of where you thought it was when you left Earth ( 4 minutes of travel + 4 minutes of visual inaccuracy + a little deviation of flight path = 10+ minutes?).

However time is still passing and 8 minutes of travel is 8 minutes of actual time. It would probably take you a little longer due to the curved travel path - adding a minute or two. So without doing any real math you would arrive at the Sun at a point that would appear to you to be about 17-18 minutes ahead of where you thought the Sun was when you left Earth. The funniest part of it all, is that the Sun does not "move" relative to our solar system... so the Sun's "movement" is based on our visual inaccuracy due to the time it takes light to reach our eyes.

If you apply Einsteins Theory of Relativity, the Sun would move at it's usual rate but the trip there would feel like just a couple of minutes to you because time is relative to the speed at which you are moving among other things (ie. density of near objects etc). So a few minutes to you, 17-18 Minutes when observed from Earth, and only about 8 minutes if observed from the Sun. (Though, I haven't travelled in time myself so I'm just hypothosizing based on the opinions and mathematically prowess of a genius other than myself

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P.S. Kudo's to Michelle for proving blondes too can google!

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[Gunnybusa]

Haven't a clue what it could be.  Many miles of nothing.

I find space amazing, and too much to comprehend.  I am fascinated by the idea of black holes (not jokes please), the speed of light and the fact when we look at the stars we are seeing things that happened 30+ years ago.

Therefore, if we could travel faster than the speed of light, could we travel in time?

Another question to go along with yours, and to suggest that there is nothing in space (aside from the obvious).  We know that aircraft require air to get lift, and in order for jets to provide thrust, they need to be pushing against something.

When you take that air away, how is it done?  how do rockets when they go into space maintain or control thrust.  Is it that they push out their own oxygen along with ignited rocket fuel etc to push themselves along?

Time travel is not the same as travelling at the speed of light or greater.  

We'll use the Sun as an example (and remove the possibility of you burning up in a ball of fire).  What we see on Earth is 8 minutes delayed due to the speed of light.  So if you set out for the Sun at the speed of light or greater... all that would happen is you would have an arc'd course to the Sun.  You would have to change directions your entire flight because as you approached the sun you would notice that it has moved forward much faster than normal.  So when you set out the Sun is actually 8 minutes ahead of where your eye sees it.  Half way to the Sun would put it 4 minutes ahead of where you SEE it and probably 10+ minutes ahead of where you thought it was when you left Earth ( 4 minutes of travel + 4 minutes of visual inaccuracy + a little deviation of flight path = 10+ minutes?).

However time is still passing and 8 minutes of travel is 8 minutes of actual time.  It would probably take you a little longer due to the curved travel path - adding a minute or two.  So without doing any real math you would arrive at the Sun at a point that would appear to you to be about 17-18 minutes ahead of where you thought the Sun was when you left Earth.

If you apply Einsteins Theory of Relativity, the Sun would move at it's usual rate but the trip there would feel like just a couple of minutes to you because time is relative to the speed at which you are moving among other things (ie. density of near objects etc). So a few minutes to you, 17-18 Minutes when observed from Earth, and only about 8 minutes if observed from the Sun.  (Though, I haven't travelled in time myself so I'm just hypothosizing based on the opinions and mathematically prowess of a genius other than myself )


P.S.  Kuddo's to Michelle for proving blondes too can google!  

What was your MOS???

 

[frisbee]

To travel the speed of light would you need a TRE?

 

[WWJD]

now we're rocking... Newton was pointing out the obvious without out any proof for the real weird stuff like rockets in space and gravity. I like the way you guys are thinking. What is that thrust working against? Why do we stay stuck to the earth instead of fly off while it's spinning? Space is cold yet not frozen - what is IT that carries the temperature and why is it cold as ossposed to hot? I'm going with the cosmic cheeze wiz myself What is space made of that the planets are floating in?