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Originally Posted by pok  SO here's how it works, but first a little description.
You are right that any object receding away from us at faster than TSOL will be beyond the cosmic horizon and we won't be able to see it. I do know what the cosmic horizon is, and it is exactly how you have described it.
However, in my telescope invention nothing actually travels at faster than the speed of light. It is only an ILLUSION created inside the mirror, you see.
So imagine you are looking at the mirror in your bathroom. If the mirror is one foot away then your image will also be one foot away, but you will appear in the mirror to actually be two feet away from yourself! That's because the light travels one foot to the mirror and another foot back so even though the mirror is only one foot away your image APPEARS to be two feet away.
Now imagine that, for some odd reason, the wall in your bathroom that the mirror is on starts to move directly away from you at 1/4 the speed of light. The image of you that lies on the mirror will only be moving away at 1/4 the speed of light but it will APPEAR to be actually receding at 1/2 the speed of light. That is because things appear to have depth in the mirror even though they are really flat.
Ok, do you understand so far? Nothing travels faster than the speed of light. Let's say though, just for argument sake, that now your mirror is moving away from you at 1/2 the speed of light. THis means that the image of you on the surface of the mirror will only be moving away from you at 1/2 the speed of light, but if you consider the 3rd land inside the mirror then the image of you in the mirror APPEARS to move away from you at twice that. Objects in the mirror appear to be retreating at twice the rate as the actual rate that the mirror surface is retreating. Do you see what I mean?
It's a trick that we can utilize because the light can undergo absolute acceleration by changing directions instantly when it hits the mirror.
It won't work for non-imaging objects like the moon. You have to have something that produces a reflected image in order for this invention to be cool. |
POK .... I think you have an extra perceptive logical brain ... but you work so fast and so intuitively that you may have overlooked a smallish detail.
I might be wrong here. The
3rd Land is never actually inside the mirror, it is a piece of information being carried by the reflected photons, as you move the mirror away the new reflected photons change the information packets they are carrying to resemble the new reality. This means there is only ever the distance between you and the mirror, inside the mirror there is no distance.
I notice that you say 'appears' to move away .. so you may have thought on this already.
Another thing I note is that it does not offer any mechanism for carrying information across the Cosmic Horizon ?
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Originally Posted by pok But tell me what you think so far please. Thanks Graybeard! |
I think that you have a fine mind ... I think you should seriously consider further educating (graduating) yourself in one of the science disciplines (even Einstein had to do this). I think that you have a grasp of fundamentals that exceeds mine, but you need the discipline of a University to focus your considerable creative ability.
cool bananas ... greg
