[Warlock]

 

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[Nico]

mmh... that's a screenshot! you won't fool me foo  
Anyway, it looks good so no pb  

[DragonClaw]

LOL I'm a criticizer  

That would be inaccurate =)  the explosion would get to you before the light would, decimated you before you even knew what happend =)

But actually that is awesome =) Great Job

[KillMeNow]

hmmmmmmmmm the explosion would get you before the light did? are you crazy man? nothign travels faster than light and that includes shockwaves from stars blowing up =) deary men - some people need more phsyics lessons  =) hehehe

[DragonClaw]

 

Originally posted by KillMeNow:
hmmmmmmmmm the explosion would get you before the light did? are you crazy man? nothign travels faster than light and that includes shockwaves from stars blowing up =) deary men - some people need more phsyics lessons  =) hehehe

Hey in the blasted movie the explosion went through planets in about 1/4 of a second... light takes a lot longer to traverse a planet =)

So maybe the movie is wrong, but thats what I'm basing my hypothesis on =)

[mikhael]

The light would reach you long before the shockwave, Dragonclaw.

Of course you'd be dead before you could registerd the visible light. When that light hit you, you'd also be hit with all sorts of nasty stuff from the upper end of the EM spectrum.

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[Galemp]

About the render- a skosi bit crowded. Take out the two capships, or make 'em smaller, fighting with a beam or two in the distance. The HercII could stand to be either bigger and offset or smaller. A render should have a focus, be it the supernova, the big ships, or the fighter. This composition looks a little crunched.

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[Xelion]

 

RKIF-DragonClaw
That would be inaccurate =) the explosion would get to you before the light would, decimated you before you even knew what happened =)

I have to agree with KillMeNow on some aspect, that light travels faster than the explosion; but the best comparison I would say is Earth to the Sun; takes light 8 minutes to reach us; so when a supernova occurs it takes many, many minutes to scour the system. and the only reason the V dudes made it this way is so your not watching 10 minutes for a supernova to occur.

 

KillMeNow
nothing travels faster than light

Heres a quote from a book called Voyage Through the Universe
 

Quantum theory, which describes the behaviour of matter on the subatomic level, predicts that pairs of elementary particles, matter and antimatter, can appear in unpredictable places and then annihilate each other. According to Hawking's calculation, the extreme gravitational force of a black hole could produce such pairs just outside its event horizon. If so, one particle might be dragged in and the other escape.

Technically speaking  your right in some context but in another context your not…

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[mikhael]

 

Heres a quote from a book called Voyage Through the Universe
 Quantum theory, which describes the behaviour of matter on the subatomic level, predicts that pairs of elementary particles, matter and antimatter, can appear in unpredictable places and then annihilate each other. According to Hawking's calculation, the extreme gravitational force of a black hole could produce such pairs just outside its event horizon. If so, one particle might be dragged in and the other escape.

Technically speaking  your right in some context but in another context your not…  

Not to nitpick, but that is incorrect. Whilst pairs of virtual particles can form on the edge of a black hole, it is only when one half the pair appears within the event horizon and the other doesn't, that one gets sucked in. The one that survived didn't do so because it moved faster than light, it was just a touch outside the danger zone. Of course such a particle immediatley becomes real and the black hole loses mass equal to that of the remaining particle.

Now, if you want to find something that moves (apparently) faster than light, look at gravity. Increase the mass of an object, and its gravitational pull on objects all over the universe increases, instantly. Likewise, the effect is instant. If gravity is transfered by a particle or wave--like the strong, weak and magnetic forces are--then that particle/wave must move faster than light. This is one of the most difficult and troubling things about resolving quantum theory and relativity theory.

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ruhkferret on ICQ/AIM

"Your guy was a little SQUARE! You had to use your IMAGINATION! There were no multiple levels or screens. There was just one screen forever and you could never win the game. It just kept getting harder and faster until you died. JUST LIKE LIFE." --Ernie Cline

[Warlock]

Simply put....the entire concept's bases off watching the nova Ceni scene. Hence the Screenie background.

So....screw realism...IT"S A GAME  

[Nico]

 

Originally posted by Warlock:
Simply put....the entire concept's bases off watching the nova Ceni scene. Hence the Screenie background.

So....screw realism...IT"S A GAME  

yuhp, but I want to add: there's something that goes faster than light, it's... light   Italian scientists have made a photon (I think it's the right particle?) go faster than light. I think there was like a gap in time between when it was supposed to appear and when it did appear.
And, I'm happy V didn't make the nova in real time, coz it wouldn't have taken hours, it would have take days  

[CP5670]

eh...isn't the photon the same thing as light?   I'm confused now...

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[Nico]

 

Originally posted by CP5670:
eh...isn't the photon the same thing as light?   I'm confused now...  

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yes, it is  
that's what I said  

[Su-tehp]

Dunno about the photon thing (the only thing I know about photons is the photon torpedo   ), but I do know that it takes 8 minutes for light from the Sun to reach Earth. (Speed of light is FAST 'cause from here to the Sun is a LONG way off...)

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[Carl]

subspace makes stuff go faster than light, right? and what did the shivans use to blow up the star? let's say it together, class  

[Xelion]

Yes venom2506 is right...photon particles make up light...

mikhael I would say that these elementary particles are faster than light, because photons only escape the inner and outer photonsphere (which usually pull them in if they strike at certain angles and thus place them into orbit) and theory dictates the possibility of escaping the egrosphere; but that is only theory.

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[Carl]

 

Originally posted by Max:
Yes venom2506 is right...photon particles make up light...

wow, you figure that out yourself?

[an0n]

Lets just say everything was toasted and the powers that be decided that snuffing out so many lives, they might as well give them some idea of how they were about to die.

Tada. One argument ended, another six started.

[Dark_4ce]

I read in a Terry Pratchett book about the speed of light. I think it was in "The Science of Discworld" Anyway, he said something that cracked me up! Something like: Darkness is faster than light. Why? Because when light is coming, it'll have to move REALLY FAST, out of the way... Something like that. Well... I thought it was funny.  

[Blue Lion]

One of those "You had to be there" things?

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