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Planet with four suns discovered
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Borascus
#1 - 2012-10-15 19:10:46 UTC
The BBC News Article lists the planet as 5,000ly away with 4 stars, in two pairs.

The planet is described as Neptune-like.
Kitty Bear
Deep Core Mining Inc.
Caldari State
#2 - 2012-10-15 19:42:18 UTC  |  Edited by: Kitty Bear
Fun stuff .. Pretty far away, but not too far.




Now read this




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I'll explain why it's important.

Space is big, really really big.
which makes everything a long way away. the nearest star (thats not our own) is 4 ly distant ... 4 lightyears, seems almost trivial. but with current technology we aint getting there in a timely fashion. (read within a lifetime)

We know our current understanding of physics is wrong, because we cant explain everything about everything using it.
If Einstein was right, and the speed of light IS absolute. we arent going anywhere, ever, because everything is just too far away, and it takes too long to get there.
But all that changes if this mathematical theory is right.

Will it affect anything in my lifetime ... unlikely, sadly., but it does open up the possibilities for the not so near future.
Unsuccessful At Everything
The Troll Bridge
#3 - 2012-10-15 21:46:45 UTC
Ow. My brain hurts now.

Since the cessation of their usefulness is imminent, may I appropriate your belongings?
Borascus
#4 - 2012-10-16 08:22:32 UTC  |  Edited by: Borascus
Funniest part of it is, " you need to be watching it vector, and it can be the only thing" (transversal velocity).

Kind of reminds me of yesteryear saying "Time travel!", followed by "OK no time travel backwards but Time Travel FORWARDS!"

Truth be told if they did their sums right they would have realised a long time ago that a 5,000ly away star has produced that much energy omnidirectionally between its reaction and any point of observation, even the 4ly away star (likely billions of years of energy emissions converge on each observable point, when measured as a range), that to change the "time" the observer reacts within you also need more energy than is contained within the universe, to change the observable point within the universe.


Star 5,000ly away, star 400ly away and star 4ly away are all shining and light is passing the point of observation at the same time, how much energy is needed to remove all the light emitted by each star to change the observable field to fit a different observed time?

A: More than the level of energy to be changed, as it can be observed from any point in its surroundings.