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Originally posted by SpunkyLoveMuff
As for going back in time, I think that idea comes from the theory that time dilates for the object (in this case you), making two different time streams, that will never catch up. [u](seeing as light, by definition, can never go faster than the speed of light)[u] But you would still be in the "current time" wherever you stopped ther journey 
I think...
Light CAN go faster/or slower... and that is also EXACTLY what that experiment they did (and thus this thread in a sense) is about.
They showed that a light particle entering a specially prepared chamber would actually leave that chamber before it even entered.
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Originally posted by Svip
Hm. A mini universe? How can you have a mini universe? Is that like a mini bar? Can I pick things out of it? But I do realise it would have been so much cheaper in the usual universe.
who's talking about mini universes? That was only a 'brainfart' from someone who didn't quite understood what this is about.
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Originally posted by Svip
However, the scientists should focus more on travelling that fast, instead of making small objects do it.
???? Maybe it is better to first understand how something is done, before you can make something or even experiment further.
It's like saying: maybe the Wright brothers should have build a supersonic plane going Mach 8 and twice the size of a 747-400 first, before building their airplane.
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Originally posted by illuzn
Actually, the universe is mostly made up of empty space. Thus unless the size of the craft you were using was around the size of a galaxy or something absurd like that you would never really hit anything.
tell that to the satelite builders and astronauts who constantly need to repear satelites because stuff flies into it constantly......
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