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Anonymous Fri Apr 8 13:52:01 2011 No.2853649 [Reply] [Original]

If we could convert matter to light then reconstitute it into its prior form, would FTL travel be possible?

How do you go about it?

>>	Captain Olimar !!ooztLPjQLnv Fri Apr 8 13:54:01 2011 No.2853657 Wait. Wait. So if we convert matter to light (what), which always moves at the speed of light, could we go faster than light? Is that what you are asking?

>>	Anonymous Fri Apr 8 13:55:01 2011 No.2853664 >convert matter to light >FTL travel >Faster Than Light Travel >light traveling faster than light >wtfamireading?.jpg

>>	Anonymous Fri Apr 8 13:55:01 2011 No.2853668 >convert matter to light >travels at speed of light >OMG FTL TRAVEL!?!!!? makes sense to me.

>>	Anonymous Fri Apr 8 13:55:01 2011 No.2853672 >>2853668 >>2853664 hivemind

>>	Anonymous Fri Apr 8 13:57:01 2011 No.2853678 but light is already matter

>>	Anonymous Fri Apr 8 13:57:01 2011 No.2853683 >>2853672 how is seeing the obvious flaw in OPs logic being a hivemind?

>>	Anonymous Fri Apr 8 13:58:01 2011 No.2853685 >>2853678 wat

>>	Anonymous Fri Apr 8 14:00:01 2011 No.2853690 >>2853685 it's a matter of fact

>>	Anonymous Fri Apr 8 14:02:01 2011 No.2853698 File: 65 KB, 500x478, this thread is unclean.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]

>>	Anonymous Fri Apr 8 14:03:01 2011 No.2853701 >>2853690 well, since Einstein tells us that matter and energy are basically the same concept I'll give it to you this time, but you're pushing it.

>>	Anonymous Fri Apr 8 14:09:01 2011 No.2853732 >>2853698 Hold on, it is Friday, these men are needed elsewhere. HOLDING THEM ON DUTY SUCH AS THIS IS A MISUSE OF YOUR POWER. MIGHT I REMIND YOU THAT ADMINISTRATORS THAT USE IMPERIAL MIGHT FOR PERSONAL VENDETTAS ARE DEALT WITH SWIFTLY.

>>	Anonymous Fri Apr 8 14:10:01 2011 No.2853738 >>2853701 umm, no. Light is not matter.

>>	Anonymous Fri Apr 8 14:17:01 2011 No.2853772 >>2853738 Search deep down in your heart... you know it to be true

>>	Anonymous Fri Apr 8 14:20:01 2011 No.2853778 Matter is energy. That doesn't make the OP less of a faggot.

>>	Anonymous Fri Apr 8 14:37:01 2011 No.2853830 >>2853778 Does it make him any less right?

>>	Anonymous Fri Apr 8 14:47:01 2011 No.2853865 File: 79 KB, 400x365, 400px-Trollface_More_HD.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] convert it into cake, thus FTC speed is possible. this is true because my ass says Cake=Mass^2 x Light

>>	Anonymous Fri Apr 8 16:43:01 2011 No.2854232 >>2853830 Yes, it does actually make him less right.

>>	Anonymous Fri Apr 8 16:46:01 2011 No.2854239 >>2853649 >matter into light it's called combustion

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