Astronomy & Space - December 2007

Scientists, mainly cosmoligists, say that matter cannot travel at a speed faster than that of light. why does light travel at the EXACT speed that matter can travel as fast as? Also, my theory is that since time slows down the faster than you go, in other wordsa the speed of light, that light experiences no time, so if you did go that fast, you wouldnt age. another thing is could it be that light tries to travel faster, at infinite KPH, but it can't because of the speed it has reached. can someone pleasen explain this to me?

ps: the odd thing is that im only 13 and want to know about this....im kind of weird. but please answer and try to use an adult answer with scientific words so i have more details. thank you!

2007-12-09 12:09:44 · 10 answers · asked by Anonymous

If NASA is so great why can't they figure our global warning or cooling whichever you believe or how to 300 miles out of a gallon of gasoline, now that would really impress me.

2007-12-09 12:08:23 · 12 answers · asked by Anonymous

like the lunar moon

2007-12-09 12:05:46 · 2 answers · asked by Tori M 1

I needed help for points that show why light is not a wave. Any ideas? thax

2007-12-09 11:41:15 · 3 answers · asked by Anonymous

For nearly 50 years, most clear nights, I have watched the moon, and still have never seen the cow jump over it. What gives?

2007-12-09 10:51:26 · 10 answers · asked by I.M. Wright 2

soical studies problem

2007-12-09 10:34:42 · 2 answers · asked by M N 1

imagine that right now there is another world, on the other side of the sun that has people living on it just like us but who have develop completely different. Do you think its possible?

2007-12-09 10:33:50 · 16 answers · asked by Anonymous

Please!

2007-12-09 10:31:44 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous

All this hype about doomsday is indeed very interseting.. Im not going to say much about it because I dont know whats to occur but, If 2012 does I guess I will be celebrating my life and possible death.. Who knows.. anyways, what should I do for my Bday on that fateful day?

2007-12-09 10:02:19 · 11 answers · asked by Anonymous

Please give your resuls in minutes and seconds travelled at the speed of light.

1) Venus
2) Mars
3) the asteroid belt
4) Saturn
5) Jupiter
6) Uranus
7) Neptune
8) Orcus
9) Quaoar
10) Sedna
11) Eris

2007-12-09 09:51:49 · 3 answers · asked by Roy Nicolas 5

Ex: How did Mercury get its name and why? Thats how the question is posed for each planet.

2007-12-09 09:44:51 · 11 answers · asked by AJ M 2

Plz tell me what you know about these four satellites/balls/planuts/wtv.

2007-12-09 09:36:26 · 2 answers · asked by Roy Nicolas 5

For some reason I am having trouble "Interpeting" it.

“The earth is not in the centre of the Sun’s orbit nor at the centre of the universe, but in the centre of its companion elements, and united with them. And any one standing on the moon, when it and the sun are both beneath us, would see this our earth and the element of water upon it just as we see the moon, and the earth would light it as it lights us”

2007-12-09 09:12:15 · 4 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-12-09 09:10:31 · 10 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-12-09 08:13:38 · 5 answers · asked by duxyverse 1

Lots of people go onto the science section just to answer "god did it" every time Big Bang comes up.
Now I have an extremely good grasp of the evidence for the big bang and that evidence is of exceptional quality.
If you believe 100% in a creationist start to the universe, show me hard evidence that I can check please.
And don't use ID because in most cases it based on an incorrect interpretation of evolution.
Good luck.

2007-12-09 07:45:46 · 27 answers · asked by Mark G 7

give sources plzzz..

2007-12-09 07:36:29 · 7 answers · asked by go_kartkid93 2

2007-12-09 07:31:36 · 9 answers · asked by 2kool4u 5

2007-12-09 07:26:20 · 1 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-12-09 07:07:16 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-12-09 06:56:03 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous

I remember when the Viking missions landed on Mars in the mid 70's, there were reports in the media that one of its experiments had found life on Mars.

Does anyone know what this was all about? Was the experiment wrong, or were the results misinterpreted?

2007-12-09 06:35:13 · 6 answers · asked by footynutguy 4

With zero gravity, and space as we know it being a vacuum, what would have caused the big bang? Can any scientist on earth take (nothing) and cause it to explode? If and when that scientist does, would he not, then call his amazing feat, an act of intellegent design? I do believe in possibility of big bang. However, common sense tells us all, that, Such a huge explosion would caused chaos, not perfect harmony in our universe. Humans, no matter how smart he or she will tell you that they are, cannot make life from nothing. How logical is it
to believe it happened by accident?

2007-12-09 06:19:03 · 16 answers · asked by steelbill77 1

What did it leave 'holes' in? And how does something "smash" into a ball of gas?

2007-12-09 05:47:49 · 7 answers · asked by Slappy McStretchNuts 5

Curious about some answers to an earlier question. As I understand the big bang theory it produced all the mattter in the universe, but surely empty space infinite nothingness was here before the big bang, according the the theory?
I cannot agree that time began with the big bang, because change must have occured for the big bang to start.

2007-12-09 05:27:06 · 17 answers · asked by Sprinkle 5

aliens? have you ever seen one?did it have a space ship.

2007-12-09 05:04:37 · 12 answers · asked by louise d 6

doesnt it have to do with seismic waves or something?

2007-12-09 04:53:05 · 1 answers · asked by Anonymous

What are we going to do about
Cosmic Rays from Black Holes?

2007-12-09 04:35:11 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-12-09 04:16:41 · 4 answers · asked by Anonymous

When the universe was much smaller at the dawn of the time , 13+ billions years ago, would the more concentrated matter/ mass not distort space time through gravity on a completely different scale than today? How much would this affect the light we see now? More red shifted etc than it really should be if the universe had always been the same size?
I am thinking about this as gravitational lensing of early galaxies suggests that light takes longer to get here than if it came here directly without lensing. Would the considerably smaller universe not exaggerate this effect dramatically? Then tailing off the closer to the present time it gets.
This confusion also concerns me in relation to question of how fast the universe is expanding as the further you look back in time the more space time would look curved from our point of view.

If you read all then I am already in your debt. this confusion has concerned me for ages. Please put me out of my ignorance thanks a billion remainz

2007-12-09 04:11:26 · 9 answers · asked by semiconductor 1