Skillers edit:

This is now a general discussion thread for anything physics or maths, enjoy!

Heh, this should be fun, bring on the advanced physics, please

EDIT: Just noticed the first line. Watch what you are saying there, there are subtleties of what I was saying in the other game that you clearly didn't pick up on.

You push something, and it will move, unless it doesn't move, in which case it will stay still.

FIZUCKZ!

0 points. Seriously, actual physics content there was about none.

Unlocked on request due to physics question.

Wormholes, Skillers.
In theory, you can connect 2 points in space and traverse to either point in very little time. However the theory would mean you go past the speed of light which Einstein states is impossible. Discuss.

I beleive this is beyond most concepts of modern physics. Einstein may have said you can't go faster than the speed of light, but it's worth noting he also said "God doesn't play dice" in regards to Quantum Theory, something which he dispised and is now a cornerstone of modern physics.

The reason we can't go faster than the speed of light is because the relitivistic mass tends towards infinity at the speed of light for anything which has mass (light doesn't), according to special relativity.

There are (probably) many theories that could be used to "explain" wormholes, but none of them are really that concrete. I guess the simplest way would be to talk about warped space and call wormholes a shortcut through space, you're not travelling faster than the speed of light in that case.

I'm going to move this thread to GB and change it to a general discussion thread.

the sci-fi fav method to beat Einstein is quite good. use 'sub-space' where special relativity conveniently does not exist.

don't really have much to add on wormholes as non of the throries are proven as said above.

hawke why make a thread that big bad skillboy will accel at? you know what he's like with his physics knowledge

1+1=2 ...

So he can show us how clever he actually is. And yes I am aware he excels at Physics; I believe that is actually the reason why he is doing it at his University.
Also it would be beneficial for me to post him some Physics questions for him to solve so I can understand it myself and pass my AS exam in it.

Space is curved due to gravity, and wormholes use that and form a sort of "tunnel" to connect two points in space together, but instead of going around a curve, you simply cut straight through it.

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Also the answer is obvious, Space is just a giant black cat and stars are the dust and dandruff in her fur. A worm hole is just a pore on the cats skin, you can go into it and be carried by the cats bloodstream to any other pore in the known catty-verse

Nice one Nannal

Thank you

Nannal, solving the worlds greatest problems with the easiest of ease

With cats.

Right, schlubs.

You have a litter of cats right, if you don't have a cat in your hand, how many times can you put that cat you don't have into the litter of cats?

x/0 = infinity (unless x=0, then it gets more weird). Basically, as Nannal says, you can put zero into something as many times as you want and you still won't fill it, therefore you get infinity.

But i used cats because i'm awesome

Infinite not cats, because you didn't have a cat

i almost have infinity cats as it is xD

don't devide by zero tho. or...

Lol epic

APPARENTLY, there are more even numbers than even and odd numbers put together...or that's what Ricky Gervais said...