So, I was having a discussion with a friend who asked why would anyone want to go to Africa for a holiday. Both agreeing it's too hot, I said I'd like to visit the Arctic to try and find the exact point of the North pole.
We discussed that in essence, while remaining in daylight for a full 24 hours, you could also walk and travel both 12 hours into the past, and 12 hours into the future in a matter of seconds (time relative to Earth, or Timeclock).
I then picture a globe, and the timezone lines, and thought, while the Earth is spinning at the same rotational speed on it's axis, the distance covered at the North Pole is marginal (a yard or two), and the distance covered at the Equator is immense (a few hundred miles). Despite the rotational force being applied is the same, the points are actually rotating at different speeds, with the widest point rotating the fastest.
In basic physics, this would mean that if you have a tube with a diameter of 1 metric meter, and it completed one complete revolution in 10 seconds, the speed in with it rotates at the widest point is 0.1m/s.
If this tube had an arm extended from it, with a length of 100 meters, and the same force was applied to complete the revolution of the new object (where the force applied to rotate the tube equates to 0.1m/s) the end point of the arm would be travelling at 100*0.1m/s or 10m/s from a force equal to 0.1m/s.
I'm not a physicist, and I'm pretty bad at Maths to be honest... but if anything with mass cannot be accelerated beyond light-speed without requiring an infinite distance, acceleration, and fuel (or energy), then what happens when we attempt to reach light-speed by not actually moving anywhere?
A standard hard drive operates at 7,200RPM, which is 120 revolutions per second.
If the size of the disk in the hard drive were expanded from (approximately) 9cm to 9000m (an upscale of 100,000%), the circumference of the revolution would increase from (approximately) 28.25cm to 2827433.40cm or 28274.33m. This would mean that per single revolution, the outer edge would travel 28274 meters or 28.275 Kilometers per single revolution. Each second, the revolution is completed 120 times. So, per second the outer edge travels at 3393 KM/s.
With the speed of light being 299,792,458 m/s (2,997,924.58KM/s), there's a long way to go, and it'd require a very sizable object. However, with the fastest spinning man-made object drawing in just over 600,000,000RPM (Source, an increase of 83,333x greater than our original RPM), it doesn't seem like it could be too difficult after all... since if mankind managed to create a rotational object 9KM in diameter and accelerated its core up to 600,000,000 RPM, the outer edge would be rotating at 282,748,869 KM/s almost 100 times over light-speed...
We discussed that in essence, while remaining in daylight for a full 24 hours, you could also walk and travel both 12 hours into the past, and 12 hours into the future in a matter of seconds (time relative to Earth, or Timeclock).
I then picture a globe, and the timezone lines, and thought, while the Earth is spinning at the same rotational speed on it's axis, the distance covered at the North Pole is marginal (a yard or two), and the distance covered at the Equator is immense (a few hundred miles). Despite the rotational force being applied is the same, the points are actually rotating at different speeds, with the widest point rotating the fastest.
In basic physics, this would mean that if you have a tube with a diameter of 1 metric meter, and it completed one complete revolution in 10 seconds, the speed in with it rotates at the widest point is 0.1m/s.
If this tube had an arm extended from it, with a length of 100 meters, and the same force was applied to complete the revolution of the new object (where the force applied to rotate the tube equates to 0.1m/s) the end point of the arm would be travelling at 100*0.1m/s or 10m/s from a force equal to 0.1m/s.
I'm not a physicist, and I'm pretty bad at Maths to be honest... but if anything with mass cannot be accelerated beyond light-speed without requiring an infinite distance, acceleration, and fuel (or energy), then what happens when we attempt to reach light-speed by not actually moving anywhere?
A standard hard drive operates at 7,200RPM, which is 120 revolutions per second.
If the size of the disk in the hard drive were expanded from (approximately) 9cm to 9000m (an upscale of 100,000%), the circumference of the revolution would increase from (approximately) 28.25cm to 2827433.40cm or 28274.33m. This would mean that per single revolution, the outer edge would travel 28274 meters or 28.275 Kilometers per single revolution. Each second, the revolution is completed 120 times. So, per second the outer edge travels at 3393 KM/s.
With the speed of light being 299,792,458 m/s (2,997,924.58KM/s), there's a long way to go, and it'd require a very sizable object. However, with the fastest spinning man-made object drawing in just over 600,000,000RPM (Source, an increase of 83,333x greater than our original RPM), it doesn't seem like it could be too difficult after all... since if mankind managed to create a rotational object 9KM in diameter and accelerated its core up to 600,000,000 RPM, the outer edge would be rotating at 282,748,869 KM/s almost 100 times over light-speed...
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