If you were to fly in a rocket to the end of the universe, there should be something there to stop you getting out of the universe so what would it be and what would it feel like? for the sake of this question just assume we could reach the point where the universe is expanding.
If you sink an object and then let go then it accelerates
upwards. What if I sank something a very long way (say a mile or so)?
I've read in New Scientist about the potential of using supercavitation to travel very fast through water.
So what’s to stop me attaching a lightweight projectile onto a big rock
with a piece of string which will detach at a certain depth,
dropping it off a boat and firing something into space?
According to Einstein's famous equation E = MC2, or Energy = Mass times the speed of light times the speed of light. This tells us that anything that has mass, such as matter, is comprised entirely of energy. Any physical object with mass is therefore simply a lump of energy existing in some stable form.
As I understand it, all forms of energy, including chemical energy, kinetic energy and potential energy are covered by Einstein's equation, meaning that fundamentally all forms of energy are the same basic 'stuff' (for want of a better word). My question is, therefore, what exactly is energy? I want to get to a fundamental understanding of energy, because it seems that such an understanding would help to explain much of reality.
I'm not asking for explanations about work done etc, I'm asking at the fundamental level what is energy?
An electron is both a particle and a wave, and we cannot define exactly where a subatomic particle/wave is because it is spread out across time and space - we can only define it through probabilities. Wouldn't there need to be infinite precision and no uncertainty in nature for nature to be deterministic? Considering that infinite precision and certainty don't appear to exist - because experiments show randomness and uncertainty exists at the heart of nature, then would it be correct to assume that both atomic and subatomic particles/waves do not always interact with one another with infinite precision and if so then is it correct to conclude that nature cannot be deterministic - i.e. by having exact knowledge of the starting conditions of the universe and infinite computing power it would still be impossible to calculate exactly how the universe would evolve?
Are all the stars we can see within the milky way? and if so are there any stars that are in the spaces between galaxies?
I was thinking about this when star trek was on, as they always have millions of stars in the background of space shots. Does this mean that instead of exploring the whole universe they were actually only looking around in one galaxy?
I herd that are people that are trying to build a space elevator,
but is there a tether strong enough to take the strain of a space station on
the other end of the tether ?
If I was to sit in the same point of space, say the chair I am sitting in right now and waited as the Earth continued to orbit the Sun; would in 12 months my location on Earth be the same or would I be somewhere else and if so how far would this point drift from my original location each year?