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Forum: Space Empires: IV & V January 13th, 2008, 06:11 AM
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Views: 9,900
Posted By Suicide Junkie
Re: OT: Gravity, Dark Energy, Universal expansion

The universe doesn't work that way... try throwing a ball on a merry-go-round sometime http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/happy.gif
Forum: Space Empires: IV & V January 10th, 2008, 02:11 PM
Replies: 68
Views: 9,900
Posted By Suicide Junkie
Re: OT: Gravity, Dark Energy, Universal expansion

That's a better description than I could find anywhere else http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/happy.gif
Forum: Space Empires: IV & V January 9th, 2008, 08:55 PM
Replies: 68
Views: 9,900
Posted By Suicide Junkie
Re: OT: Gravity, Dark Energy, Universal expansion

I thought that was obvious given the context.

Basically the Earth's acceleration is not in the same direction as the incident light from the sun.
Forum: Space Empires: IV & V January 9th, 2008, 07:37 PM
Replies: 68
Views: 9,900
Posted By Suicide Junkie
Re: OT: Gravity, Dark Energy, Universal expansion

Its not the angular speed, but a phase shift that I was talking about.

Measurements of Earth's acceleration show that we are accelerating towards the Sun's current position (to the precision of...
Forum: Space Empires: IV & V January 9th, 2008, 03:25 PM
Replies: 68
Views: 9,900
Posted By Suicide Junkie
Re: OT: Gravity, Dark Energy, Universal expansion

Equal and opposite reactions.

If the sun was perfectly still there wouldn't be a problem. But earth (mostly jupiter, due to mass&distance) pull on the sun too.

If the sun's gravity appears to...
Forum: Space Empires: IV & V January 9th, 2008, 01:24 AM
Replies: 68
Views: 9,900
Posted By Suicide Junkie
Re: OT: Gravity, Dark Energy, Universal expansion

There are a number of observations that do indicate that:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speed_of_gravity#Experimental_measurement.3F


As MCT mentioned, however, the earth accelerates towards...
Forum: Space Empires: IV & V January 8th, 2008, 01:16 AM
Replies: 68
Views: 9,900
Posted By Suicide Junkie
Re: OT: Gravity, Dark Energy, Universal expansion

Except that the folks living on the balloon aren't expanding since they are held together by gravity, electromagnetism, and nuclear forces.

Light will take longer and longer to get from each of...
Forum: Space Empires: IV & V January 6th, 2008, 07:05 PM
Replies: 68
Views: 9,900
Posted By Suicide Junkie
Re: OT: Gravity, Dark Energy, Universal expansion

While you would have two regions that are independent, the space between them is still contiguous.

It is entirely possible to be unable to reach point C from point A, but at the same time be able...
Forum: Space Empires: IV & V January 6th, 2008, 06:28 PM
Replies: 68
Views: 9,900
Posted By Suicide Junkie
Re: OT: Gravity, Dark Energy, Universal expansion

If you had a set of points, A, B and C, where A and B were right at the limit of losing contact, and B and C were right at the limit of losing contact. B is located right in the middle between A and...
Forum: Space Empires: IV & V January 6th, 2008, 05:20 PM
Replies: 68
Views: 9,900
Posted By Suicide Junkie
Re: OT: Gravity, Dark Energy, Universal expansion

You're the one who said "twice as far away as the big bang" http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/wink.gif


Anyways...

I think the original point is that indeed there are places you...
Forum: Space Empires: IV & V January 6th, 2008, 02:24 PM
Replies: 68
Views: 9,900
Posted By Suicide Junkie
Re: OT: Gravity, Dark Energy, Universal expansion

Aside from your negative time problem, I guess the issue is in trying to relate your model to reality when it is just too different.
Forum: Space Empires: IV & V January 5th, 2008, 11:42 PM
Replies: 68
Views: 9,900
Posted By Suicide Junkie
Re: OT: Gravity, Dark Energy, Universal expansion

So, back to my initial issue: "twice as far away as the big bang" is absurd.
Forum: Space Empires: IV & V January 5th, 2008, 10:16 PM
Replies: 68
Views: 9,900
Posted By Suicide Junkie
Re: OT: Gravity, Dark Energy, Universal expansion

Presuming all of your topology and a fixed rate of expansion, why are you measuring "distances" through your time axis?

Go far enough back in time... and you start going forward again, but on the...
Forum: Space Empires: IV & V January 5th, 2008, 07:46 PM
Replies: 68
Views: 9,900
Posted By Suicide Junkie
Re: OT: Gravity, Dark Energy, Universal expansion

Come on, man.

Its not 20B light years away.
Its 20B years away.
Those are completely different units.

The size of the *visible* universe (roughly, time since photons were released * speed of...
Forum: Space Empires: IV & V January 5th, 2008, 07:01 PM
Replies: 68
Views: 9,900
Posted By Suicide Junkie
Re: OT: Gravity, Dark Energy, Universal expansion

The big bang didn't occur in some particular part of spacetime, but rather it is when everywhere was the all the same place.

It makes no sense to say that something is twice as far away as the big...
Forum: Space Empires: IV & V January 4th, 2008, 03:12 PM
Replies: 68
Views: 9,900
Posted By Suicide Junkie
Re: OT: Gravity, Dark Energy, Universal expansion

The moon would only be drifting closer if it started out inside geosynchronous orbit. Since in that case it would be going around more than once per day, and thus pull the surface along.
It would...
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