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Regarding some scientific evidence against the speed of light, from what i remember when i studied science a while back i was told that light can not travel through a vaccum (as sound cant). Therefore i have no idea why people believe starlight travels through space. Astronomers knew this for many years which is why they were searching for some kind of aether.



Cassiterides, Evolution Fairytale Forum 62 Comments [11/25/2012 3:17:47 PM]
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#1473827
Meeeh

Ehhh no... Just no...

Light travels perfectly fine through vacuum.

11/25/2012 3:18:56 PM

#1473833
Churchy LaFemme

Your studies "a while back" must have been a few hundred years ago, as no astronomer has believed light cannot travel through a vaccum for centuries. Try reading a recent science book, perhaps one that was printed with movable type instead of handwritten by monks.

11/25/2012 3:24:47 PM

#1473836
ThatOneGuy

Wait, Eyebeams believes in Aether?

11/25/2012 3:30:43 PM

#1473843
UHM

I was searching for an appropiate facepalm. This is so stupid, I couldn't find one.

11/25/2012 3:39:00 PM

#1473846
New Face of Rev

10 when i studied science a while back
20 light can not travel through a vaccum (as sound cant).

DOES NOT COMPUTE!

11/25/2012 3:43:06 PM

#1473855
checkmate

scientific evidence against the speed of light

Ah, the so-called zero set, the empty set, null and void.

11/25/2012 3:53:34 PM

#1473856
Rabbit of Caerbannog

One of the Four Morons of the Apocalypse strikes again.

11/25/2012 3:54:33 PM

#1473870
Valerius

"i studied science"

Spoken like someone who has no idea about what science actually is, but wants to impress all his equally stupid friends.

11/25/2012 4:06:21 PM

#1473873
Creedence Leonore Gielgud

@UHM

This one work?:


11/25/2012 4:09:25 PM

#1473879
Sheridan

UHM

Is this sufficient?



Edit:

Someone beat me to it.

11/25/2012 4:19:20 PM

#1473904
Osiris

Sound can't travel through a vacuum because it is a vibrational wave and so it needs some medium capable of vibrating to travel through. Light is both a particle and a wave, but because it's a particle it doesn't need a medium to travel through.

Seriously, explain right now how you can see stars.

11/25/2012 4:49:32 PM

#1473906
Filin De Blanc

He has to be a Poe. I don't believe anyone this stupid could have got this far without drowning the shower or something.

11/25/2012 4:50:22 PM

#1473922
John

Got it backwards, Cassiterides. Light can travel through a vacuum. Sound can't. We saw a demo of the latter in 8th grade. I guess you weren't paying attention.

11/25/2012 5:19:49 PM

#1473939


Wow... Please study harder.

11/25/2012 5:41:20 PM

#1473940
RiJayden

@UHM: Found one:

11/25/2012 5:52:36 PM

#1473950
Raised by Horses

Gunning for SuperSport's position, are we?

11/25/2012 6:05:18 PM

#1473956


>from what i remember when i studied science a while back i was told that light can not travel through a vacuum

WOW!
Somebody actually invented a bloody time-machine back at the 19th century! And somehow you got selected to travel to our century, young traveler.

11/25/2012 6:15:13 PM

#1473973
Seeker Lancer

You "studied science" a while back? I'm sorry the third grade doesn't count and I have a hard time believing you even did that.

For fuck's sake Cass, Google "photon" already and stop being so willfully ignorant. It's beyond embarrassing even by fundie standards.

11/25/2012 6:45:49 PM

#1473978
Felix Wilde

Well, knowing that c=0 puts Einstein's Theories of Relativity into a new perspective, doesn't it? For both Al and Cass to be right, the universe must not exist, and since it does, one of them must be mistaken... But who?

@Osiris: Not relevant. Cass here thinks we see things by shooting magic eyebeams out of our heads, not by the eye absorbing light. So we're quite capable of seeing thhings through a vacuum, or even in the complete absence of light, I guess.

11/25/2012 6:53:22 PM

#1473984
breakerslion

This is so far beyond facepalm it would take the light from facepalm seven years to reach it.

(Adaptation of a line blown by Roseanne Barr on Roseanne)

11/25/2012 7:01:27 PM

#1473997
checkmate

when i studied science a while back

One doesn't study "science".

Assuming you mean narural science, one studies physics, or chemistry, or biology, or whatever, usually with a more specifically defined specialization.

Or do you mean so-called "creation science"? They don't differentiate, they just make up goofy crap as they go along.

11/25/2012 7:24:52 PM

#1474005
anevilmeme

Cass is either a brilliant Poe or batshit insane......

11/25/2012 7:50:40 PM

#1474006
Reynardine

No, you dumb shit, that applies *only* to sound. You can't *see* a light beam in a vacuum, but it travels through vacuum, all the same... No, it's too late to acquaint you with the simplest physics (including that "beam" is an oversimplification)

11/25/2012 7:54:40 PM

#1474012
LAchlan

Right, so why's it bright in the daytime, I'd love to hear your opinions on that. Is it that our eyebeams are stronger when we just wake up and get weaker after dinner?

11/25/2012 8:30:43 PM

#1474031
Frostythesnowman

Cassiturdhead, here's a simple experiment for you to try.

Take a flashlight, switch it on and shine it into your left ear. You will notice that the light shines out of your right ear, even though your skull contains a perfect vacuum.

Oh and watching Star Trek isn't the same as 'Studying Science'.

11/25/2012 10:11:45 PM
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