Remeber reading that this is based on the theory of relativity. This means that even if we did reach such amazing speed - it would take around 20,000+ years to reach another galaxy or another planet. Considering this how can it be possible for UFOs (if at all its true) to visit us (it will take the same period )
for them too)
Does this means that this UFO businees is 100% fake?
2007-12-11 23:02:00 · 14 answers · asked by spice 5 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Astronomy & Space
No it doesn't mean that UFOs are 100% fake. What it does mean, is that if any civilization wants to travel to a distant galaxy or even another star, they will have to find a new way to get around this cosmic speed limit. Theres many ways that we might bend this law, perhaps by curving space-time to travel more quickly, or finding a 'subspace' where the laws of physics are different, to travel faster.
Of course alien spacecraft could just be traveling near the speed of light, and this would slow down aging for THEM in the spaceship. So to them it would seem as if time is going very slowly (and to them it would seem as if they're getting to their destinations very quickly), but to their home planet (and to earth and anything else stationary), many years will have gone by before the spaceship gets to even the nearest star. But this would be a very ineffiecient way of running a vast galactic empire, especially if all your colonized worlds were many light years from each other, it would take years even centuries to even communicate at such distance! But, i like to look at it this way: once it took months to communicate with another country, and days to communicate with another town, and now with our technology we can communicate with someone on the other side of the world in approximately 0.4 seconds. Who would have ever thought that in the days of ancient egypt? So this is why i have a lot of hope that we will somehow find ways to travel faster than light, and communicate much faster over the vast distance of space. Maybe we can't envision it just yet, but that's why scientific breakthroughs are so revolutionary.
If UFOs/flying saucers are visiting us, one thing is for sure: Their technology is far beyond anything we have even thought of.
2007-12-11 23:05:14 · answer #1 · answered by John 6 · 2⤊ 3⤋
Yes. That is the reason most of us who are reasonably knowledgeable about space and the universe are so skeptical when it comes to UFO's being from outer space.
Now this does not mean that some well advanced race might not have a super duper means of space travel. It just means that we havent seen one and had the opportunity to examine the technology yet. There is always the chance that someone has a better wheel, or a better gizmo.
2007-12-11 23:21:09 · answer #2 · answered by zahbudar 6 · 0⤊ 2⤋
We have only just started exploring Space, there are things in space, like particals and waves of energy that we have not even discovered yet, that go way faster than light, and as long as we still have engines that push/force our way thru space, we will never go faster than light, what about if we are pulled thru space, by something as simple as tuning into a certain frequency of wave energy instead !?
And the speed of light only remains constant inside a planetary bodies magnetic field.....
If Aliens are visiting us, and they have been since way before recorded earth history, u would think they would find the simplist way to travel great distance, without relying on refuels or carrying massive amounts of fuel, and to be able to do it within a short time frame (weeks or months) to have less of an effect on the occupants health, there are ways to travel that far, within a very short time ! We have within our great scientific minds, a certain mindset, always thinking of complex solutions to simple problems, and disregarding the simple answer because it cannot work that simply, its too simple..... our scientific knowledge of space and the universe is very limited, we are still mere toddlers still learning to walk, there are civilizations in our universe far in advance of ours, they have been travelling thru space a longggggggg time, they have perfected it..... we in our arrogance, think we are the centre of the universe, Ha ha, what a laugh !
And to think we are the only " Intelligent " life in this massive universe, just shows how big our ego's and self imortance are !
Heres a thought that will really blow your mind, what about if we travelled thru space, at the speed of thought !!!
Blessings All
Merry Christmas !
2007-12-12 02:29:00 · answer #3 · answered by sittingbear43 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
a million. the fee of sunshine is the wonderful speed decrease interior the universe. Logically, exceeding the sunshine speed might get you back in time. considering, in accordance to physics, it fairly is undo-able the subject remember ends here. 2. in case you return and forth with the fee of sunshine the time might supply up (in all probability). it would supply up for you, too, so which you will not be conscious. So what's the factor? :)
2016-11-03 00:11:36 · answer #4 · answered by sanzotta 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Physics says there are 'particles' known to travel faster than light speed (supra-luminal velocity?).
UFO's could be occupying the very same space as us but in a different vibrational level of reality. This explains how some UFO's 'vanish' into thin air without speeding off.
If space wormholes are used then short cuts in distance can happen. Two distant points can exist quite close this way.
2007-12-11 23:12:59 · answer #5 · answered by Tuxedo 5 · 1⤊ 4⤋
If there is a way to travel interstellar/intergalactic distances some civilization would have found it. But no matter how they do it, it would take enormus resources. So I doubt they would come all this way jsut to zig around in the night sky and then go home.
2007-12-11 23:46:35 · answer #6 · answered by DrAnders_pHd 6 · 1⤊ 2⤋
may b they r much more advanced. They may have invented such machines with which they can travel such a large distance in seconds. Think about the period b4 the invention of fire. If we can develop so much then anythink can happen.
2007-12-11 23:12:43 · answer #7 · answered by Mango R 2 · 2⤊ 2⤋
well one thing to think about if in fact aliens are traveling among the stars that they may be millions of years more advanced than the human race and have found a way to travel thru wormholes just as humans are transporting bits of particles thru a wormhole now,,
Just a passing thought,
2007-12-11 23:11:29 · answer #8 · answered by SPACEGUY 7 · 1⤊ 2⤋
we can not beat the speed of light, it is impossible. as for aliens if they exist maybe they spend millions of years wandering around the universe and have longer lifespans than us. when in space people don't age as they age on earth though. look up the twins paradox: one goes to space and spends 30 years and comes home the one who stayed on earth looked his 50 years old and the one who was in space for that long look the same as the day he left yet he was still 50.
however i could be wrong... http://www.livescience.com/technology/050819_fastlight.html
check for yourself :)
2007-12-11 23:09:11 · answer #9 · answered by phyregdss 2 · 1⤊ 2⤋
Let's see: What is infinity plus one. What is the speed of light plus one?
As for UFOs...I see things all of the time that I can't identify, some of them aren't even flying.
Enjoy your time here on Earth, the Aliens are coming...heh, heh, heh!
2007-12-11 23:17:44 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 4⤋